Step-by-step guides to starting homeschool, choosing curriculum, keeping records, planning your days, and getting through high school — written by Annie Cohen, homeschooling mom of four.
Standardized tests, portfolio reviews, evaluator sign-offs — which states require what, which options you have, and how to choose the approach that serves your child best.
What deschooling is, why it matters, how long it takes, and what to actually do during it — the transition most families skip and then wish they hadn't.
Part-time work, shift schedules, remote work, and shared responsibility — how real families make homeschooling work without a full-time stay-at-home parent.
The frugal homeschooler's full toolkit — free curriculum, library leverage, used-book strategy, and every funding source that can cut your out-of-pocket cost to near zero.
The mechanics of building a high school transcript from scratch — courses, credits, grades, GPA calculation, and what colleges actually need to see.
The worldview question every homeschool family navigates — what each approach actually means, where the lines blur, and how to audit a curriculum before you buy.
The five major homeschool philosophies — what they believe about how children learn, what a typical day looks like, and which families each one serves best.
How homeschooling uniquely serves children who fall outside the middle of the bell curve — and the specific accommodations and curricula that work.
Dual enrollment, CLEP tests, transcript strategy, and everything you need to know about homeschooling through graduation.
An honest budget breakdown — from the free path to the full-service option — plus every funding source available to families right now.
The #1 question every homeschool parent gets — answered honestly, with the research and the practical playbook.
The practical playbook for running a multi-kid homeschool — from scheduling to combining history across four grade levels.
Time-blocking for one kid is straightforward. For three kids across three grade levels, it requires a system. Here's the one that holds.
The records your state actually requires, the records you'll want for college, and the simplest system that covers both.
A decision framework built on learning style, budget, religious lens, and how much parent involvement you can actually sustain.
The three-month runway from 'we're doing this' to a working routine — with the real decisions in the right order.
The paperwork, the curriculum decisions, the first-week plan — here's exactly what to do, in the order you actually need to do it.
Homeschool Factory gives you the planner, the curriculum recommendations, the state compliance tracker, and the funding finder — all in one place.
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