Wow, I first wrote this page in ~2001. Back then we were with CompuServe. How things have changed since then.
We design our own curricula, until high school, when the child either designs his/her own, or with help from me, or we go with an online provider, or enrol in virtual academy.
But here are my go-to sources, or favorites after homeschooling for ~14 years:
Getting started with a homeschooling philosophy / Books that influenced me / Designing a Curriculum:
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
The Lost Tools of Learning, an essay by Dorothy Sayers
A Pocketful of Pinecones by Karen Andreola
For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaefer Macaulay
Real Learning by Elizabeth Foss
The Original Homeschooling Series by Charlotte Mason
The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum by Laura Berquist
The Harp, Laurel and the Wreath by Laura Berquist
Homeschooling for Excellence by Micki Colfax
Climbing Parnassus by Tracy Lee Simmons
Punished by Rewards by Alfi Cohen
A Latin-Centered Curriculum by Drew
A Landscape with Dragons by Michael O’Brien
Growing Without School by John Holt
Honey for a Child’s Heart by Gladys Hunt
The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
The Paideia Program by Mortimer Adler
Work-in-progress.
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