Curriculum reviews
Every curriculum here is scored on the same nine dimensions, including the one most buying decisions turn on: whether a qualified adult ever reads your child's work.
The rubric was built from established review systems including EdReports, Achieve the Core, Cathy Duffy Reviews and The Well-Trained Mind, and was developed in part with, and validated by, a certified Alaska teacher. The full method is published.
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18 curricula, ranked for use as a full curriculum
BYU Online High School
A fully accredited private online school run by Brigham Young University that enrolls your student, teaches them with licensed teachers, grades their work, and issues an actual…
Williamsburg Academy
An accredited online private school for grades 6-12 where certified teachers ("mentors") run live 50-minute discussion-based classes over the internet, grade the work themselves,…
Edgenuity
A 400-course online middle and high school platform that schools and districts buy, not families, where recorded on-screen teachers deliver the lessons, the computer scores the…
Sonlight
Christian, literature-based K-12 print curriculum built around a fully scheduled 36-week Instructor's Guide that requires a parent to read aloud, discuss daily, and mark the work.
BookShark
A faith-neutral, literature-based print curriculum that ships a year of real books plus a day-by-day Instructor's Guide, and puts the entire teaching and grading load on the…
Lincoln Learning
A nonprofit curriculum publisher that sells individual online K-12 courses a la carte to homeschool families, in two very different versions: a cheap version where a computer…
Mr. D Math
A video-based online math provider for grades 5 to 12 that teaches the whole middle and high school math sequence so the parent does not have to, but where almost nothing the…
Rainbow Resource Center Curriculum Starter Packages
A homeschool retailer's pre-assembled boxes of other publishers' books, covering four core subjects per grade at a bundle discount, with free human curriculum consultants but no…
Bright Thinker
A K-12 curriculum publisher (not a school) that sells you either an online course platform or printed workbooks, and expects a parent or a partner school to act as the actual…
MiaPrep
A low-cost, video-and-quiz online curriculum for grades 7-12 that the student works through alone and the computer grades, where the parent stays fully in charge of records,…
Thinkwell
Self-paced, video-based single courses (mostly math) that a student works through alone with everything auto-graded, sold one course at a time for a 12-month subscription.
Acellus Academy
A WASC-accredited private online school (K-12) where your child watches recorded video lessons alone at their own pace, the computer grades almost everything, and the school…
Miacademy
A low-cost, fully self-paced online K-8 curriculum where recorded video teachers deliver the lessons and the computer scores the work, with the parent acting as administrator,…
IXL
A subscription practice-and-diagnostic website that gives your child unlimited auto-graded skill questions in math, language arts, science, social studies and Spanish, with no…
Teaching Textbooks
A math-only app that teaches the lesson, grades every problem instantly, and shows a step-by-step solution for anything the student misses, so a parent never has to teach or grade…
Timberdoodle Curriculum Kits
A family-owned Washington retailer that curates and boxes 7 to 28 third-party products per grade into hands-on, STEM-heavy annual kits with a printed Handbook and an online…
Time4Learning
A $39.95-a-month self-paced online curriculum library where your child watches lessons and the computer scores the quizzes, and you are still the teacher, the grader of anything…
Outschool
A marketplace where independent teachers sell individual live-video or pre-recorded classes to kids ages 3 to 18, so you are buying single courses one at a time, not a graded,…