Guides
The answers, without the fluff.
Homeschool guides written by people who read the actual law, called the actual program, and priced the actual curriculum. No listicles. No affiliate-bait. Just the information families ask about most, answered clearly, for any family, any worldview, any geography.
Start here
New to homeschooling? Start with the field guide.
The canonical method-neutral starter for the 2026 family. Every entry point from fresh kindergarten to a mid-stream high-school senior. Every approach from classical to Charlotte Mason, Reformed, Catholic, secular, Montessori, unschooling, traditional textbook, unit study, online academy, and hybrid. United States legal framework and ESA by state, plus ten international regions (Canada, the UK and Ireland, Continental Europe, the Nordic countries, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Oceania, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East). Five worked first-year budgets, a 90-day plan per family situation, primary-source-cited throughout.
Curriculum pillars
Choose by subject, and by the careers each subject prepares for.
Six destination-shaped pillar guides. Each profiles 12 to 25 programs across method, worldview, and price, then maps ten career destinations with US, European, and Asian labor-market data. Six family case studies per pillar, two each in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Best math curriculum (2026)
Twelve programs from MEP and Math Mammoth through Singapore Dimensions, Beast Academy, and Art of Problem Solving. Engineering, computer science, data science, accounting, economics, actuarial, physics, operations research, bioinformatics, with BLS, Singapore DOS, Japan METI, and Korea KOSIS data on ten-year demand and current salary.
Best history curriculum (2026)
Fifteen programs across Story of the World, Mystery of History, History Quest, Curiosity Chronicles, BookShark, Notgrass, TAN Books, Catholic Textbook Project, Memoria Press, BiblioPlan, Veritas Press, Master Books. Ten humanities career destinations from law to foreign service.
Best visual arts curriculum (2026)
Seventeen programs . ARTistic Pursuits, Drawing With Children, Mark Kistler Draw3D, Memoria Press classical art, Royal Drawing School UK, Tate Kids, Khan Academy Art History, Pixar in a Box. Industrial design, animation, architecture, illustration, UX/UI, art conservation.
Best music curriculum (2026)
Eighteen programs across Hoffman Academy, Suzuki, Faber, Alfred, Bastien, Memoria Press Music Appreciation. Three exam boards mapped . ABRSM, RCM, Trinity College London. Music education, performance, composition, audio engineering, music therapy, music tech.
Best foreign language curriculum (2026)
Twenty-five programs across modern (Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean) and classical (Latin, Greek, Biblical Hebrew). Memoria Press Forms, Henle, Wheelock’s, Lingua Latina, Cambridge Latin Course. AP, NLE, A-Level, DELE, DELF, TestDaF, HSK, JLPT.
Best science curriculum (2026)
Twenty-two programs across four worldview camps, young-earth, old-earth Christian, secular, Catholic (anchored to CCC 282–289). Apologia, BJU, Berean Builders, Pandia REAL Science Odyssey, BFSU, Real Science 4 Kids. Medicine, engineering, computer science, research, public health.
Stage and starter
Starting out, or matching curriculum to grade.
Guides for first-year families and for parents matching a specific grade band to a program.
Head-to-head
When two publishers feel like the same answer.
Side-by-side comparisons on one rubric. Rigor, parent-intensity, daily time, cost, and worldview scope.
Classical education & history
Booklet-length essays on the history of classical pedagogy.
Specialty long-form for families weighing classical, Charlotte Mason, and developmental-trivium curricula. Primary sources translated; modern publishers profiled reportorially.
ESA & state policy
Where the money is. Where the law sits.
Independent guides to homeschool law and Education Savings Account programs. Verified against statute and the program’s own published materials.
State homeschool laws (2026)
A clean, up-to-date table of homeschool law in all 50 states. Regulation level, reporting, testing, immunization exemptions, recent changes. Written in English, not legalese.
ESA funding by state (2026)
Thirty-plus states run ESA or school-choice programs in 2026, but homeschoolers qualify in fewer than a dozen. A clean 50-state matrix with eligibility, funding amounts, and the states where most blogs get it wrong.
Texas TEFA: what homeschoolers actually get (2026)
Texas joined ESA states for 2026-27 with TEFA. Homeschoolers get $2,000, private-school students get $10,474, and the tiered structure is poorly covered elsewhere. Here is what families should know before applying.
Weekly
New issues published Monday mornings.
A new dispatch publishes at everyhomeschool.com/issues every Monday at 7 AM ET. No email, no paywall.