Overwhelmed by the huge quantity of curriculum available and not sure where to start? Find out what you should consider when choosing the best homeschool curriculum for your family, then find out what other homeschoolers think of various products using the dropdown lists above.
Recent Reviews
Classical Conversations Review by Christopher
"Classical Conversations. My family is at the end of our CC experience. Where do I begin? I’m going to keep this review non-personal. We chose CC as our homeschool curriculum before our son was born. I’ve always been attracted to the classica.."
ALEKS Review by .
"ALEKS is completely Horrible. I was forced to use it in my 7th grade class and if i didnt i would ger a 0% as a TEST grade. Everyone using this program will be MADDER at ALEKS than not getting Ice Cream. The questions are hard and requires you to KNO.."
BJU Press Review by Teresa
"The maps are wonderful and overall views of various culture and history were good. I felt it pushed an environmental view a little too much but overall it was a good curriculum. I did like the tests and activity book. My son took it 10th grade. The.."
McRuffy Press Review by Jen B.
"My child was removed from "distance learning" at the regular school and put into homeschool during Covid for kindergarten. I loved the curriculum and the teaching guide was easy to follow. After a year of distance learning for others and homeschooli.."
History Odyssey/History Quest Review by Melody C.
"I am the homeschooling mother of four daughters and a long-time and happy user of the History Odyssey series. Therefore, when I saw that they had released a new series to teach "historical thinking" I was quite intrigued and ordered it immediately. I.."
Abeka Review by Carlson
"I would recommend Abeka curriculum, hands down. My son was an Abeka student 9th-11th grades. We especially enjoyed Bible and History, we watched the New Testament and Revelation series as a family. The class curriculum is comprehensive and because.."
Thinkwell Math Review by Karen W
"Our three sons who are strong in math used Thinkwell math starting from Precalculus (which is a big course - start in the summer!), AP Calculus AB, and AP Calculus BC from 2010 - 2018. All three got 5s on their AP exams and well prepared to study eng.."
Time4Learning Review by Rebeckah
"Buyers Beware~
Watch your billing accounts closely after following the instructions to cancel services. The most unfortunate experience was their confusing, redundant and unclear consultation process. An unrequested, 2nd email must be sent to confir.."
"My daughter began Ignite Christian Academy in 10th grade. She just finished her first quarter and is enjoying and thriving with her online school experience. The teachers are very active in the learning process and the help room is easily accessible..."
Classical Conversations Review by Josh
"We are 3 years in, wife is a tutor this year, and it will be our last. She agreed to be a tutor so it would pay for tuition for our three kids. But instead of cancelling out the tuition, we still had to pay, then essentially CC pays her back quarterl.."
Acellus/Power Homeschool Review by Julie
"This program started out great. The teachers are very effective and my son likes them.
Four weeks ago his social studies class froze and he has not been able to do his history since then. Numerous emails to customer service were simply ignored. .."
Starfall Review by michelle fogel
"My daughter loves starfall.We studied the grammer (nouns and plural words) and she loved it so much she sang it everywhere we went that day. She told me what nouns were and it was so easy to learn. Starfall also has this great social studies game to .."
"My son, who is 15, has been a Liberty student since seventh grade. He is able to complete his work within 3 hours which is why he prefers it to public school. The classes are challenging, which I like, but he is very self-disciplined and has a good.."
Calvert Review by Toni Peterson
"We started Calvert this year as my daughter was entering her junior year. Most friends and family were supportive, but still concerned she might miss out on things.
She was so tired from the rigor of school and competitive dance, that we were worri.."
Laurel Springs School Review by Laura
"Rigorous, classical content. Self-paced with continual checkpoints to ensure content mastery before student is allowed to proceed with next lesson. Based on my 2+ years of research pre-& during Covid, LS is the best option available for the inves.."
Ignite Christian Academy (formerly Alpha Omega Academy) Review by Kimberly Allen
"We love Ignite. The curriculum is need based on where your child is and stays with your child through their educational development. With the assistance from teachers and academic advisors, our son has made educational and emotional developmental str.."
BJU Press Review by lea
"long and bad days, too much work, too many essays, to much work. the work load is too much, math problems are too hard. I am not very happy. They need to teach math better..."
"Ignite Christian Academy has been the best choice we made for our daughter. From schedule to academics this school is top notch and they actually care about you. Your not just a number here. And having the 24/7 tutoring is well and beyond worth the p.."
Sonlight Review by Erika
"I have been homeschooling since my oldest (13 y/o) started school. We have used various curriculums and resources since then. Most of them have been free or inexpensive. My oldest child loves to read so I thought Sonlight would be perfect for him. I .."
"We absolutely love this school and the support we receive. We have been recommending Ignite to everyone! My son is in 7th grade and said he feels like his teachers are efficient because he learns a lot in 30 mins yet struggled in public school with 7.."
ALEKS Review by Dawn Young
"I bought ten subscriptions for my highest ten performing students to work on while I worked independently with my struggling learners. Unfortunately i had to go on MFLA medical leave because my moms health declined to the point of hospice services. .."
Sonlight Review by M. Vazquez
"I bought the Sonlight Curriculum for World Literature. It included sex, buddism and infernal stories. I ask to return it and I have to pay for the shipping cost..."
Abeka Academy Review by Jessica
"I am a mother of a gifted learner who also has PTSD. As a Neuroscience student myself I have measured how the brain learns against Abeka's spiral learning approach, and have found it to be consistent with how the human brain learns. I am in my 6th y.."
Alpha Omega Monarch Review by Lucia Singleton
"Monarch is promoting socialism, evolution, and even Global Sustainability Development as defined by the United Nations.
*verbatim example of evolution from Monarch:
"A great example of the effects of physical processes is the Grand Canyon in Ar.."
Time4Learning Review by Scott
"Our daughter used T4L platform from 4th-grade to 8th-grade due to Covid and other circumstances. We even hired a private tutor to work with her through the courses. Now that she is entering regular school again, we are just now learning how much she.."
Time4Learning Review by john
"In all Honesty This website isn't as great as I thought it was going to be. This is because they lack feedback, and lacking feedback to students isn't great at all because then students wont learn. lets say for math's, when you get an answer wrong, t.."
ABCmouse Review by Anne
"ABC mouse is good from ages 4-6.
Beware of the payment policy however.
It is a subscription that renews automatically. Also, beware of the “parent assessment” add on. Costs $40/yr (in addition to yearly fee), which I clicked inadvertently at .."
Alpha Omega Monarch Review by Rachel Wright
"This curriculum is indoctrination. My parents used it on me from 1999-2011.
It is patriarchal, I remember thinking as a child while reading this...Did women exist back in the day? No child should have to ask themselves that about their gender... I.."
Acellus/Power Homeschool Review by Hayden Jones
"This program is not worth it, everything newer students do is completely outdated work from 2012.
This "Acellus" app is so glitchy/broken.
Whenever you are doing an exam you are not able to change any answer so if you missclick one wrong answer it .."
"Withdrawing from classes due to circumstances out of my control and requested a refund. The policy states 3-5 business days for refund to be issues however that is not true. I received email back from Liberty about the refund on August 24, 2023 .."
A.C.E. Review by Tiffany
"(Please don't scroll, this is REALLY important)
To sum it up, the A.C.E system is far from helpful. After transferring from other schools, several friends and I have had to move back 4 or 5 grades after doing a diagnostic test at an A.C.E school..."
McRuffy Press Review by Melissa
"I have been using McRuffy Press for 12 years. I have used kindergarten through 5th grade for my four children. I love the convenience and the fact it covers all of our needs. All of my children learned to read and developed a live of reading using th.."
McRuffy Press Review by Lauren
"McRuffy Language Arts was my absolute favorite when my children were in early elementary! I loved that it included everything: reading, phonics, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and writing. I also loved that it was open and go and didn’t need much p.."
K¹² Review by Jayla
"If you're thinking about this school, DON'T DO IT! I couldn't get my child in due to them keep denying my child's documents. It's much easier getting your kid into school a normal public school. They refused to give me the admin phone number and thou.."
Liberty University Online Academy Review by C. Hill
"Unfortunately I am unable to review instructors, etc as this university wasn't able to evaluate transcripts and get my son enrolled in the past two months so we are choosing another school. I would love to save another parent time and frustration whi.."
"LUOA promises a lot and delivers very little. We were told we could graduate our children with 2 years of college complete! That was a complete joke! Everyone I talk to gives us different answers and it is incredibly difficult to get ahold of anyon.."
K¹² Review by Cass
"K12 for my daughter when she was in kindergarten was awful to say the least. The workload was way to much. She had no time to play and she was only 5. Workload took like 7 hours a day, it was ridiculous, no 5 year old can sit that long. Just the phon.."
Time4Learning Review by Leo
"Terrible, Worst homeschooling site that exists. Each activity is so out of context, and other stuff too. They have 1 minute of explaining something, then 20+ questions right after. Change to something else!.."
Time4Learning Review by Rene Brown
"Worst homeschooling platform I have ever had to use. I tutor homeschooled students, primarily in Math but also in other subjects, have used many platforms, and this one is amazingly bad. Outdated, nowhere near enough practice, quizzes are irrelevant .."
Reading Eggs Review by Victoria
"Reading eggs is used as part of the standard school curriculum in Australia across both public and private sector. It’s developed for your average child the programme isn’t really suitable for kids who are gifted or struggling with reading (ie dy.."
Laurel Springs School Review by Tia
"Laurel Springs was unreliable and lacked interest in correcting technical issues that prevented my daughters from accessing assignment for weeks..."
IXL Review by William Piotrowski
"Horrible it is rigged and unfair. I was at a 99 smart score I got one question wrong and it too me down to 83. Also it takes forever. I don’t think I learned an ounce from this website. It induces stress I put 1,000,000 instead of 1000000 and it ma.."
"We love the flexibility and the course guidlines. Keeping our little one on track is made easier with the assignments "pacing." Better quality education is found at home and our family has grown closer because of the teaching / growing process we exp.."
The Story of the World Review by Rhiannon
"Firstly, I should say that I was so excited to find this resource. I love the idea of looking at history as one big story. However, as a person who is studying to become a historian, I have found that the areas of history that I have knowledge in hav.."
Liberty University Online Academy Review by Patricia Amidon
"LUOA as been amazing for our family. We have using LUOA since our oldest was in Kindergarten and she is now doing 6th grade. There is DEFINITELY a learning curve on how to manage it for your family. We do 4 day school weeks and they are usually only .."
Acellus/Power Homeschool Review by Rachael
"I love this school! I have a lot of kids so I need something affordable, easy to navigate (for me and the kids) and gives the kids a good education! I love that Acellus gives the kids a choice on what subjects they take up to 7 subjects (for one pric.."
Ignite Christian Academy (formerly Alpha Omega Academy) Review by Rashayna Miller
"Ignite has been an answer to prayer! We were looking for a a different option other than what the traditional Public school system had to offer for the Middle School years. I was a bit intimidated to take on homeschooling on my own and Ignite has bee.."
A.C.E. Review by Marlene Cotla
"A.C.E. was used for me in high school. I was home-schooled due to the fact that the curriculum was low in price at $500 per year compared to these private schools that were unaffordable for my parents. As a student with severe learning disabilities a.."
Abeka Academy Review by Mei
"Abeka started off seemingly well, but then quickly turned into a nightmare for my family. The curriculum is great, but the workload for my 6 and 5 year old's is bit much. We have our children enrolled in the accredited K5 program with online streamin.."
A.C.E. Review by Daniel-Josh Swart
"My son worked so hard from 2011 through his paces.
Completed most of the subjects. Two left and the Knysna school packed up.
No one was willing to carry Him any further to complete.
He now sits with out a matric thanks to ACE.
I am still SO angry.."