Overview / Where to start

Where to start

The same evidence, four ways in. Take the one that matches why you came.

I'm a parent or a teacher

You want to know what a child is actually taught, without the apparatus.

  1. Findings — short, plain, each with the page it came from
  2. Your province's board — every book it publishes
  3. Pick your child's class and subject in the database

I'm a journalist

You need something quotable that will survive a challenge.

  1. Findings — each has a quotation, a citation and a confidence level
  2. Compare — for the "which province is worse" question, answered carefully
  3. Method — read the limits before you file

I work in education or policy

You want to know what is systemic and what is a single bad page.

  1. The synthesis — scored, vintage-controlled comparison
  2. Edition audit — which books are actually current
  3. What the pupil must write — the assessment argument

I'm a researcher

You want the data, the rubric and the failure modes.

  1. Method and the rubric
  2. All studies — six lenses, six subject tracks, three threads
  3. The catalogue — 160 books with provenance and evidence tiers

If you only read one thing

Two pages of a class-6 history book, in two provinces, in the same school year. Punjab's tells eleven-year-olds to prove that the Indus Valley people were easily defeated — on the same page where the book admits nobody knows why that civilisation ended. Sindh's tells them most historians reject the theory, and why.

Neither book is wrong about the facts. They are teaching two different things about what knowledge is.