Beiträge- Divergent paths to mass schooling at Europe's poles?Regional differences in Italy and Sweden, 1840-1900- Johnny and Ivan learning in a programmed way:The Soviet reinvention of one American technology- Die Magdeburger Hilfsschule und ihre Lehrkräfte im Nationalsozialismus[The Magdeburg Auxiliary School and its teachersunder National Socialism]- Der Neuhumanismus als säkulare Bewegung? Bildung, Philologieund Religion am Beispiel von Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729-1812)[German new humanism as a secular movement? Bildung, philology,and religion, taking the example of Christian Gottlob Heyne(1729-1812)]- From the "known" to the "unknown": Nationalistic "description(s) ofthe earth" as a school subject in the multinational Habsburg EmpireKolumne- David F. LabareeA sermon on educational research, part 2Vorschau auf 2-2019"Researchers have widely acknowledged the fact that performancedata have turned into the modern Oracle of educational truth. However,surprisingly little attention has been paid to how the Oracleconverses in the patriotic language of (more or less) homogenousnations, cultures and peoples, manifesting continuities between thepresent and the entangled histories of statistics, nationalism andeducation." (Nelli Piattoeva and Daniel Tröhler)