Alina Dzhurylo, PhD (in Pedagogy), Senior Researcher of the Department of Comparative Education, Institute of Pedagogy of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine; Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Philology and Translation, National Transport University. Research interests focus on issues of theory and practice of educational reforms in the Federal Republic of Germany; trends in the development of school education in Germany; ensuring the quality of general secondary education; decentralization of the educational process.