Are we, despite the crisis, still standing…?

The aim of the analysis is to make readers aware of the scope and effects of the relationship between pedagogy as a science and the educational policy in Poland after 1989. In the first part of the article, the author has described the strategies of involving scientists in school reforms and provided their theoretical justification. According to the method of critical research of educational macropolitics, the author has investigated the links between the reform of the school system and the political and social doctrine of pedagogical supervision. In the second part, the author has criticized the policy applied by the authorities of right-wing parties towards the evaluation of scientific disciplines. The author has reached the conclusion that Polish general education and higher education will face a deep crisis both in the area of education and upbringing of young generations, and in the process of promoting and empowering the quality of research results conducted by universities deprived of high-class academic staff.