Bard has arranged to work with some public schools nearby; their officials, including Jan Volpe, superintendent of the Red Hook Central School District, with 2,375 students, say they are excited by the program.
"We do need to challenge our high schoolers more than in the past," Volpe said, "so it is a good thing to have strong knowledge-based preparation. Kids are much more sophisticated today, and have a great deal of knowledge that they have learned in other places."
But, she added, subject knowledge has to be balanced with pedagogy, because "not everybody can teach."
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