Internships, taxes, coding: Pilot education program aims to bring back life skills

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Internships, taxes, coding: Pilot education program aims to bring back life skills

by Katie Klingsporn, WyoFile RIVERTON—At Cheyenne Central High School, one of the schools participating in a pilot initiative aimed at rethinking education in Wyoming, Liz Edington taught her psychology students about mental illness by having them study speculated diagnoses of great American leaders.  When it was time to test her students, Edington asked students to produce their own diagnoses in what are known as performance assessments, she re…