Homeschooling Curriculums
The Best Complete, Secular Homeschooling Curriculums for 2022-2023
With the school year about to start, many new homeschooling families are looking for the ideal homeschooling curriculum for their unique child. This is a list of our top 100 homeschooling curriculums for 2022-2023. You can use them for homeschooling or as a supplement to traditional school. If you’d like extra help finding the best homeschooling curriculums for you, try our free homeschooling curriculum planner.
Why it’s hard to choose a homeschooling curriculum
Finding a stellar homeschooling curriculum can be challenging for the following eight reasons:
No vetting process for homeschooling curriculums: There’s no formal vetting process. Anyone can design a homeschooling curriculum.
Some homeschooling curriculums have inaccuracies: Since there’s no formal vetting or approval process, homeschooling curriculums can have inaccuracies. We’ve even found errors in the answer key for leading math and science curriculums.
Finding the right homeschooling curriculum can be time-consuming. It can be challenging and time-consuming for a parent to pore through all the reviews and various accreditations to determine if a homeschooling curriculum is right for their child.
Homeschooling Curriculums are not necessarily pedagogically sound: Homeschooling curriculums don’t necessarily adhere to the up-to-date research on best teaching practices or the science of teaching.
Many homeschooling curriculums are religious: This can be difficult if your family does not practice the religion taught in the curriculum. Many curriculums are not up front that they are religion. And furthermore, these curriculum providers are not necessarily explicit abotu the fact that their curriculum embraces a religious viewpoint. It may just pop up when you least expect it.
Some homeschooling programs embrace creationism, rather than evolution. This may be problematic for you if you believe in science.
Some homeschooling curriculums include racist or biased viewpoints towards minorities and other marginalized groups.
Some homeschooling curriculums are extremely dry and boring for kids and parents.
As you can see, in the homeschooling curriculum world, it’s pretty much a free-for-all. Anyone can write a homeschooling curriculum and include whatever information or disinformation they want.
To save you time, our team of learning specialists has reviewed thousands of the most popular homeschooling curriculums recommended by families. Our teachers have spent the last 2 years testing them with a small group of students to observe how kids engage with the materials - and also documented outcomes on the progress they made.
Criteria for selecting homeschooling programs
When we were vetting homeschooling curriculums, we used the following six criteria to evaluate them for selection
Secular: No religious content.
Factually accurate: No errors or typos
Pedagogically sound: followed the latest research on the science of teaching. Most programs are mastery-based, with scaffolding and sequential learning.
Rooted in scientific understanding : Climate Change is real and evolution happened.
Anti-racist and inclusive: The programs we selectd, especially social studies and literature programs include a comprehensive approach, with a good balance of the storis and voices of women and marginalized groups.
Fun for kids! While we’re always trying to encourage grit and growth mindset, we believe learning happens best when kids love learning. Even if children had to push past struggles and challenges, they were almost always highly engaged in the curriculum.
All these curriculums are complete: While we do recommend mixing and matching and almost always having a math and literacy curriculum, families can lean on these programs for a well-rounded education.
Effective. Kids learned a lot very quickly when using these curriculums with a parent, caregiver or independently.
The Best Homeschooling Curriculums for 2022-2023
BrainPop and BrainPop jr
Self Directed Education (Not a formal curriculum, but works great as an approach for many kids)
Did we leave something off the list? Let us know and our team of learning specialists, parents and kids will review it for inclusion!
