Compare The Good and The Beautiful with us
The Good and the Beautiful hands you open-and-go Christian course books, in print or as PDFs, for you to teach. Our lessons teach your child one-on-one, with submitted work graded for you.
Teaching from the book or learning one-on-one
The Good and the Beautiful publishes Christian homeschool curriculum, books, and learning apps. It covers preschool through high school, with core math and language arts courses for Kindergarten through Grade 8, in printed course books and print-at-home PDFs. The parent teaches from the course books.
Our lessons explain each idea and guide your child through it, so the teaching moves from you to us.
Where your child starts
The Good and the Beautiful offers placement tests for language arts, reading, spelling in Grades 4 to 8, and math from Kindergarten through pre-algebra.
To start your child where they actually are, we write a placement test for each subject. It has 25 questions, or 12 for younger learners, and it adapts as your child answers.
From every answer, we estimate where your child is solid but not yet finished, and that's where they start. Each subject is placed on its own, so your child might begin in the middle of fourth-grade math and the beginning of fifth-grade reading. In grades 3 to 12, a child who prefers paper can print the free placement test, then upload a photo of the answer sheet for grading.
What a school day looks like
In a day with The Good and the Beautiful, a parent teaches each open-and-go lesson from the course book, and siblings can study science, history, and electives together, family-style.
Our Parent Dashboard lays out today's lessons by subject. You can build the week around your family's hours and print it for the fridge.
Interactive articles weave in your child's interests, with images and videos made for them. Reading checks confirm understanding, then your child applies the idea in a project, such as optimizing lap times for F1 or working out a rocket’s fuel load.
When your child gets stuck
The Good and the Beautiful gives the parent course books to teach from. When a child needs an explanation during that lesson, the follow-up conversation stays with the parent leading it.
Our Always-On Mentor sits beside every reading and project, so help is there the moment your child needs it.
The mentor also steps in on its own when your child seems stuck, explains the idea another way, and can make it visual by drawing on its board. In a reading check or a project, it guides your child's thinking without giving the answer away.
Learning to keep a notebook
From Grade 3, our readings offer an optional Notebook guide to help your child organize their learning. It encourages lesson headings and unit labels, and the printable guide offers tips for taking notes in their own words rather than copying the article.
The guide encourages your child to note where they struggled and how they got past it. One tip is to star a useful takeaway, then gather those takeaways into a review page. When your child scans and uploads their notebook pages, we help them remember those ideas and shape practice problems around the places they struggled.
Who grades the work
We grade everything your child submits as soon as they submit it, so grading never lands on you. When your child gets something wrong, we help them work through it, and projects come back with feedback so they can revise them.
Records, state paperwork, and the transcript
At TheHomeschoolingCompany, your child's school record builds as they work: daily check-ins log attendance, and everything they finish is saved automatically. Attendance logs and learning summaries are ready to export, and we draft the documents your state asks for from that same record, including portfolios with real work samples.
Our high school transcript builds from completed work, with courses, letter grades, credits, and GPA calculated for you.
Keeping faith in your school day
The Good and the Beautiful describes its curriculum as nondenominational Christian. Its course books include religious content, which comes with the subjects your family buys.
Our curriculum isn't a religious curriculum unless you want it to be. Add Bible study, Christianity, or any faith as a custom elective, and we build a course around it, graded and recorded like every other subject. You can also add faith as an interest, and we'll weave it into any or all subjects, so it doesn't have to be its own course.
Moving from The Good and The Beautiful to us
School in a Box includes up to 12 subjects, from the core to custom electives on anything your child is curious about. Single Subject covers one course, if you would rather start there.
Start the 14-day trial and choose School in a Box or Single Subject.
Pick your child's subjects, including any topics they have been asking to learn more about.
Your child takes a placement in each subject, and their whole curriculum is built around them.
Other questions
- Can my child read lessons on paper?
- Yes. Lessons, reading checks, and projects can be done on paper. Your child scans and uploads the finished pages for the same detailed feedback as online work.
- Can a child who is not reading yet use it?
- Yes. Kindergarten through Grade 2 is spoken: your child listens to each lesson, answers out loud, and an adult stays nearby.
- Can brothers and sisters each have their own path?
- Yes. Each child has separate placement, lessons, and progress under one parent account.
- Can we use ESA funds?
- We are approved in Arizona, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Utah. Program rules apply.
Your child's curriculum. Your family's time.
Keep the books your family enjoys, and let the daily teaching move off your plate.
$149/month per child after the trial.