Homeschooling Curriculums

Written By Manisha Snoyer (co-founder of Modulo)

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:

  1. No vetting process for homeschooling curriculums: There’s no formal vetting process. Anyone can design a homeschooling curriculum.

  2. 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. 

  3. 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.

  4. 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. 

  5. 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. 

  6. Some homeschooling programs embrace creationism, rather than evolution. This may be problematic for you if you believe in science. 

  7. Some homeschooling curriculums include racist or biased viewpoints towards minorities and other marginalized groups. 

  8. 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

  1. Secular: No religious content.

  2. Factually accurate: No errors or typos

  3. Pedagogically sound: followed the latest research on the science of teaching. Most programs are mastery-based, with scaffolding and sequential learning. 

  4. Rooted in scientific understanding : Climate Change is real and evolution happened. 

  5. 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. 

  6. 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. 

  7. 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.

  8. Effective. Kids learned a lot very quickly when using these curriculums with a parent, caregiver or independently. 

The Best Homeschooling Curriculums for 2022-2023

  1. Khan Academy and Khan Academy Kids

  2. Blossom and Root

  3. BrainPop and BrainPop jr

  4. Magic Forest Academy

  5. Moving Beyond the Page

  6. Evan Moor

  7. Oak Meadow

  8. Brain Quest

  9. IXL

  10. Calvert Homeschool

  11. Core Knowledge Sequence

  12. Teachers Pay Teachers

  13. Teaching Textbooks

  14. Time4Learning

  15. ABC Mouse and Adventure Academy

  16. 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!

Manisha Snoyer (co-founder of Modulo)

For the last 20 years, I’ve taught over 2000 children in 3 countries (of all socio-economic backgrounds). I pioneered an English language program in a conflict region in the Middle East. I’ve worked as a bilingual public school teacher at some of the highest and lowest performing public schools and in all five boroughs of NYC. I’ve tutored 18 subjects in three languages to some of the wealthiest families in NYC, San Francisco and Paris to make up for shortcomings in private schools they were paying up to $60,000 a year to attend.

Since 2015, I’ve helped hundreds of parents start microschools (way before this was a household buzzword). I founded CottageClass, the first marketplace for microschools and learning pods that was part of the Techstars 2018 class. In 2019, I created a virtual learning program to help families through the pandemic, a free online math tutoring program (masteryhour.org), and schoolclosures.org, a hotline developed in collaboration with Twilio and 80 other partners including Khan Academy, Revolution Foods and the Crisis Text Line, that served 100,000 families impacted by school closures.

I’ve climbed trees with children in forest schools in San Francisco, and tested new digital apps with kids in seven countries.

I’ve also coached dozens of families at different stages in their homeschooling journey. Most recently, I founded Modulo with homeschooling dad, best-selling author and tech entrepreneur Eric Ries, to help families curate their children’s education, social and childcare experiences drawing from a diverse array of in-person and online resources.


During the last three years, I’ve devoted much of my time to reviewing and testing secular homeschooling curriculum and other resource. I’ve spent the last three years talking to thousands of secular homeschooling families, and poring over tens of thousands of secular curriculum reviews and testing physical curriculum and digital apps for with hundreds of students to find the highest quality, most engaging, personalized learning materials for every type of learner.

I’ve spoken about homeschooling and modular learning at multiple venues including SXSW EDU, NY Tech Meetup, and on the LiberatedEd podcast.

In 2022, Modulo was one of 8 organizations who were awarded the Bridge Grant from the Vela Education Fund to expand access to homeschooling and modular learning to under-resourced communities.

My experience in education and homeschooling has led me to believe that there is no perfect education for every child, but families have an extraordinary amount of wisdom they can apply to building the perfect education for their individual child.

My goal with Modulo is to make it possible for any family to easily build a customized education that their child will love, and that will empower the whole family to thrive, taking into account, social, emotional and academic needs.

I love to answer questions from parents and receive feedback on how we can improve Modulo, so feel free to reach out anytime! I personally answer all the questions and comments readers leave on my blogs.

In my free time, I like hiking, traveling the world, tasting ceremonial grade matcha, enjoying dark chocolate.

I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Brandeis University with highest honors, with a double degree in French Literature and American Studies and minors in Environmental Studies and Peace & Conflict Studies.

And I love to learn!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/manisha-snoyer-5042298/
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