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Conference teaches school reform. "Focus on your student’s future, not your own past,"

Teresa Brown of Hulett and Kari Peterson of Moorcroft share a laugh while playing a rock-paper-scissors game that practices adding integers during the North Central Association’s spring school improvement conference at the Parkway Plaza on Monday afternoon. About 900 teachers and administrators are at the two-day conference, which focuses on improving middle and high schools. Photo by Sarah Beth Barnett, Star-Tribune.
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Wyoming will have to change the way it teaches its children if the state and nation are going to keep up with China and India, speakers said Monday at an educational conference in Casper.

"The world outside our schools is changing four to five times faster than in our schools," said Willard Daggett, president of the International Center for Leadership in Education.

Daggett said countries like China and India are leaving the United States behind when it comes to educating high school students in areas of physics and biochemistry.

By JOHN MORGAN
Star-Tribune staff writer

Full Story: http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2006/03/07/news/casper/754bf96adaae0f04872571290083c414.txt

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