EdSurge

These Hip-Hop Artists Were Already Teaching

For decades, hip-hop artists have been invited into schools as guest speakers, workshop leaders and visiting performers. They ...
AllHipHop

From Beats to Books: How Hip-Hop Enhances Learning for Students

In ancient Greece, beyond Plato’s well-known advocacy for music in education, there was an entire system of education called the “quadrivium.” This system, part of the classical education in the ...

Hip-hop legend to serve as professor at this HBCU

Hip-Hop legend and Funky 4+1 member MC Sha-Rock is set to join Bowie State University as adjunct professor this fall.
The Conversation

How hip‑hop in the classroom is raising the volume of learning: 4 essential reads

Scholars trace the origin of hip-hop to a “back to school jam” that DJ Kool Herc threw in an apartment in the South Bronx in 1973. Today the music genre is one of the most popular in the U.S. In July ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Hip-hop has what schools are missing: Creative ways to enhance learning

Throughout American history, Black innovators such as Benjamin Banneker, Lewis Latimer, Madam C.J. Walker and Dr. Charles Drew helped shape scientific and industrial progress, even as the nation built ...

Waco’s first hip hop architecture camp opens at Bledsoe-Miller STEAM Center

About 40 students entering sixth through ninth grade are spending the week exploring architecture through hip-hop at the ...
PBS

Racial Equity, African-Centered Learning & Hip-Hop in Edu.

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