Merit Badges for the Job Market - WSJ.com - 0 views
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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 27 Jan 12"Some see more potential for badges in K-12 education than at colleges, as an incentive similar to the frequent "power-ups" and accolades that videogames offer. At the free online-education provider Khan Academy, for instance, students get a "Great Listener" badge for watching 30 minutes of videos from its collection of thousands of short lectures. "