Thank you to the Catholic Homeschool Curriculum Providers who provided descriptions of their services.
The Angelicum Academy
The Angelicum Academy is a Catholic, great books, classical homeschool program. We offer a complete curriculum for grades Nursery through 12th, including books, lesson plans, and related materials in thirteen subject areas: Art, Cartography, Foreign Languages, Geography, History, Language Arts, Literature, Math, Music, Philosophy, Science, and optional online Great Books Discussion for children in grades 3-12. Additional services for enrolled students include placement tests, quarterly tests and grading, report cards, diplomas and transcripts, email consultations, and other online services.
http://www.angelicum.net/
Kolbe Academy Home School offers education in your home; ours is not a correspondence program. With Kolbe Academy, the home teachers are truly in charge of their children's education, in line with the dictum of Pope John Paul II that 'the parents have been appointed by God Himself as the first and principal educators of their children.... their right is completely inalienable' (Familiaris Consortio 40).
Home teachers adapt Kolbe's week-by-week course plans to the daily work of their children, do the testing and grading using Kolbe's quarterly tests and other materials, and help the students stay on task. The principle of subsidiarity is at work here. Kolbe assists the home school by offering course plans, syllabi and tests as frameworks, as well as other guidance, recommendations and support, but parents are free to adapt all our materials to suit their particular situation. The primary truth remains: the home is the school and the parents are the teachers.
There are many other fine Catholic home school programs. Kolbe Academy is best suited for parents who want to provide an orthodox Catholic and classical education for their children; Kolbe gives parents a general framework within which they have the freedom and concomitant responsibility to make the day-to-day decisions in their children's education.
http://www.kolbe.org/
Mother of Divine Grace School
Mother of Divine Grace School was founded in 1995 to provide parents with the information, resources, and support necessary to educate their children according to the classical tradition. As with Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum, the emphasis of the study program and the consulting services is to help parents to teach their children the tools of learning.
Mother of Divine Grace School offers a Catholic, classical approach to home schooling. It is a program that has been developed by "trial and error". In other words, it has had a test run.
We understand the challenges that home-schoolers face and thus we offer different levels of service. We want to meet the needs of each individual family, and we realize that these needs will vary from family to family.
Our consultants, teachers, lesson plans, materials, standardized testing, and assessments can provide families with clear educational goals, the appropriate level of support, as well as the needed structure and flexibility. These will lead to academic success.
http://www.motherofdivinegrace.org/
Our Lady of the Rosary School
Our Lady of the Rosary School is an international Catholic homeschool organization which offers complete curriculums for students from grades pre-kindergarten through twelve. Our Lady of the Rosary School is more than simply a school, however. We are an apostolate dedicated to saving the souls of children by giving them the opportunity to receive a superior, truly Catholic education in the best possible environment - the home.
Our mission is to help parents teach their children the Catholic Faith in its entirety using sound Catholic educational materials, covering all subjects. We have been helping parents educate their children since 1983, providing them with the materials they need to give their children a sound, well-rounded, exceptional Catholic education. This Catholic education helps prepare children for further academic growth and development in the safe, wholesome environment of their own home.
http://www.olrs.com/
Our Lady of Victory School
Since 1977, Our Lady of Victory School has been providing curricula and textbooks to parents who school their children at home. Our Lady of Victory School allows parents to choose from various standardized or specially tailored programs. The Full Enrollment option is the most complete, and takes the burden for most of the record-keeping off the parents, while providing the added benefit of allowing parents and students to take advantage of our home-schooling experienced tutors, who grade major tests and provide insightful comments throughout the academic year. The most economical option is the Satellite Program, which makes available to parents the entire curriculum which our enrolled students pursue, but without the benefit of OLVS record-keeping, tutors, report cards, transcripts, and, ultimately, diplomas. Additionally, should you desire, you can simply purchase from our Book Store to choose from hundreds of titles, including exclusive reprints of Catholic textbooks and literature by our publishing arm, Lepanto Press, in quality, hard-bound editions which are reasonably priced to fit every family's budget.
Regina Coeli Academy
Regina Coeli Academy (RCA) is the first all-online college preparatory program for Roman Catholics. Our highly qualified faculty provides stimualtion and evaluation of student achievement through a Liberal Arts program for Catholic homeschooling families, private Christian schools, educational coops, and students enrolled in public schools. The academy's theology program, under Father Stephen F. Torraco, guides students through the Church's teaching in a four year sequence based on the Universal Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The purpose of the Academy is to provide Roman Catholic educators and Catholic homeschooling families a rigorous online college preparatory curriculum which challenges the intellect and nourishes the spirit with the riches of the Catholic tradition. All courses are taught from a college preparatory level and provide opportunity for students, young or mature, to excel in specialized study or to enroll in a complete academic classical education curriculum. We provide live classroom participation, interactive World Wide Web forum, electronic mail, and evaluation of student work. All students who are of good will and who can meet the rigorous demands of the subject matter are welcome. After the completion of our courses, it is not unusual for the diligent student to be academically prepared to bypass general education courses required by degree-granting institutions of higher learning. Preparation for the online distance-learning environment is afforded students from ages 10-13 via the Agnus Dei Juinor Program, sponsored by Regina Coeli Academy.
http://www.reginacoeli.org/
Saint Thomas Aquinas Academy
http://www.staa-homeschool.com/
Seton Home Study School
Founded in 1980, Seton Home Study School assists parents with the Catholic homeschooling of their children, in all subject areas, in grades kindergarten through high school. We offer full-year, half-year, and single course enrollments. We help by providing counseling by phone, message boards, fax and e-mail. We also provide daily lesson plans, testing services, books, software, videos, and other educational materials. Seton Home Study School is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
http://www.setonhome.org/
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
~ St. Thomas More ~
