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With a grant from the Philadelphia Youth Network, the Free Library of Philadelphia hired 70 recent high school graduates as “teen badging specialists.” In 10 library branches in underserved neighborhoods, these recent grads—who had all been accepted to college—were tasked with creating a pilot set of digital badges highlighting skills and knowledge younger students in middle school will need to know in high school to better prepare for college. (If you haven’t heard, badges are a new type of digital credential students can earn to show off their skills in a type of online profile.) |