The building blocks of any good curriculum begin with reading. If you learn nothing else in school, it should be this most basic skill - kind of the reason we have a public school system to begin with.

Every year $720 billion is spent on K-12 public education in the United States. Depending on what federal or state test you look at, we barely crack 50% proficiency in reading by any measure.

This is because the fundamentals - fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension - are not mastered for half of America's children. The reasons for this vary. Deficiencies abound at home and in the classroom, but at some point in 12 years it surely must be possible to offer a little remediation somewhere.

This is our specialty, and we have found that the best way to do it is in a small-group setting using direct instruction.

We have four levels of reading and writing curriculum listed below. Most cover history, civics, and economics, with a little STEM thrown in.

Ancient Egypt
Civil War
Colonial America
Electronics
Expansion
Explorers
Gallipoli

Macroeconomics
Native Sons
The New Nation
Reconstruction
Roaring Twenties
Roman Empire
World War I

2008 Economic Meltdown
9/11
Ancient Greece
Antebellum America
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Congress
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Depression
End of the Cold War
Engineering
​Federalism
The Gathering Storm
The Holocaust

Hyperinflation
Iran
Iraq War
Korean War
Mexico
Middle East
Modern China
Modern Japan
Presidency
Progressive Era
The Seventies
The Sixties
Russian Revolution

The 1990s
Afghanistan/Pakistan
American Revolution
Cold War
Earth Science
Life Science
Medieval Europe
Northern Ireland
​Physical Science

Putin's Russia
The Reformation
The Renaissance
Spanish Civil War
Supreme Court
Technology
World War II
Vietnam War

1984 (George Orwell)
Asking for Trouble (Donald Woods)
The Gulag Archipelago (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer)
Advanced Reading Passages