Unsere Freundin Katharina Sass hat in einem Aufsatz Schulstruktur und soziale Spaltung in skandinavischen Ländern und in Deutschland verglichen. Ein interessanter Beitrag zur Schulstrukturdiskussion. Sie arbeitet an der Universität in Bergen, Norwegen.

Hier der Abstract ihres Beitrags, den Ihr über obigen Link abrufen könnt:

ABSTRACT
This paper explores comparatively and historically why Nordic and
Continental welfare and education regimes differ in the degree of
comprehensiveness of their primary and lower secondary school
systems. It analyses how school reforms, reform attempts and
coalitions in the post-war decades were shaped by different cleavage structures in Norway and the German federal state of North
Rhine-Westphalia. While the class cleavage was most dominant in
school politics in both cases, rural–urban, centre–periphery, state–
church and communist–socialist cleavages shaped party systems,
political alliances and outcomes decisively. In particular, the rural
population was integrated into different cross-interest coalitions:
in Norway, its political representatives consented to social democratic comprehensive school reforms, while in Germany, they
opposed such reforms. This was related to cross-cutting conflicts
concerning centralisation and language in the Norwegian case
and regarding religion, centralisation and (anti-)communism in
the German case.