Easy Peasy is a comprehensive, complete and free homeschool curriculum that can be implemented either online or in workbook form, or a mixture of the two. The high school level courses can be found here. Masterbooks is my number one suggestion to new homeschoolers. It is workbook based, Charlotte Mason inspired, easy to grade and implement and usually costs about $200 per year. You can purchase videos to go along with some courses on Masterbooks Academy. These are usually $30-$50 per class but are well worth it. Monarch is my suggestion to parents looking for a fully online curriculum. Lessons are in written form, online but the page can be read aloud to the student. Students can man this on their own, grades are kept in the computer. Parents have grading tasks that can be completed in about 5 minutes per day. Parents can set a calendar and reassign things that students need to look at again. This curriculum is $43 per month and $23 per month for the 2nd child. Very good. Not classical but gets top 3 rating for ease of use!Susan Wise Bauer all but created the Neo-classical Education movement. It works on trivium. Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric are the 3 stages of education and pretty much coincide with Elementary, Junior high and High school stages in public school. This book will explain everything you need to know, including curriculum suggestions. Charlotte Mason started PNEU schools in the UK. These are still in practice today. Charlotte Mason style education is considered Classical education. If you have a hard time reading the Victorian style that Charlotte Mason wrote in, it can help to listen. If you are limited on time but want to get the gist of what she is all about, listening to the audiobook version of Home Education by Charlotte Mason is a great starting place. For those who have even LESS time, the first 10 podcasts by A Delectable Education will lead you in the right direction! These podcasts are set in the same manner as a Charlotte Mason lesson; short, to the point, and full of great thoughts and ideas. Charlotte Mason believed in 20 minute lessons that inspired great thinking. Do yourself a favor and listen here!For those leaning toward Classical or Neo classical education but really want to get down to the nitty gritty as to the comparison and contrast of the two education philosophies, this is a short read. There is a lot of overlap between the two methods, but they are different. Karen Glass explains narration, which is a key feature in both Classical and Neo-classical educational philosophies. Narration of living books is pre-writing. It is public speaking. It is a skill that even adults would do well to perfect. Susan Schaeffer Macaulay teaches you how to prepare your children for life with homeschooling and explores ways to make it a joyful adventure!Become certified in the Charlotte Mason method of education. The Barton Reading is an Orton Gillingham inspired, research and evidence based reading and spelling curriculum that is designed to help reluctant learners and Dyslexic students. You may also become certified to teach this through their website. Diane Craft and her Right Brained Learning System utilizes a technique called Brain Integration to attempt to remove learning blocks from children with learning disabilities. Graduate High School with a bachelors, for only 3-5k. (Which is 1/3 of the dual credit price) This program is suited well for students with learning disabilities and autism.
