Owing to Dr. E.D. Hirsch, Liberty Common School students read and communicate far better than most, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Virginia. That’s the case for all students who profit by the background knowledge prescribed in Hirsch’s Core Knowledge Sequence.
Knowing things, learning the commonalities of cultural references, memorizing idioms, absorbing stories, and singing songs are like living stones forming the firmest foundations of a unified society. LCS’s professional classroom instructors achieve this with astonishing fidelity.
Despte an avalanche of news stories chronicling the decline of America’s government-owned schools, the assurance for Liberty parents could not be clearer: Do not let your hearts be troubled.
“Hirsch has been right all along,” writes Robert Pondiscio in a stunning article about the Virginia study. Pondiscio, in fact, was here for February’s LCS Professional-Development Day and guided the entire faculty.
