Chronicle

Hip Hop in the Classroom

A service-learning course shows hip hop songwriting can help kids with vocabulary – as well as trying to make sense of the world Ask Deja Simms, a sixth-grade English Language Arts teacher at Durham’s ...
WNDU

Hip-hop dance classes in session at the YMCA O’Brien Center

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - It’s Wellness Wednesday, which is why we welcomed a special guest from the YMCA of Greater Michiana to The WNDU Studios! Mike Jacob of Judah’s Pride has been teaching hip-hop ...
MLive

Michigan rapper creates ‘Hip-Hop for Self-Expression’ class at Kalamazoo middle school

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Trevon Hobson, a Michigan-born hip-hop artist who goes by the stage name “Skitzo,” never wanted to be a teacher. Nevertheless, the morning of Wednesday, June 4, Hobson was giving ...
New Haven Independent

Could Class Be Better With AI + Hip Hop?

At a conference on culturally relevant pedagogy, New Haven educators learned that with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), students don’t have to just settle for the word “hamburger” in their ...
The Washington Post

Spinning Hip-Hop as A Class Act for Kids

It's not the most hard-core jam session, but it might be the cutest. On a Tuesday afternoon at Payne Elementary School in Southeast Washington, hip-hop literacy class starts in the auditorium after ...