The Big Read: A textbook case of bungling

22 May 2015 - 02:07
By Jonathan Jansen

The first time I heard about one textbook per subject per pupil I thought, "Now that would be really great if it happened." Of course it will not happen for the same reason that no government, before or after 1994, has been able to claim that every child in every school has a textbook in every subject.

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