Teachers Use Hip Hop to Engage Students

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How does this dr. feel good stuff help them with complex thinking problems and math skills and reading technological journals that will land them well paying jobs.

Terry Provancha of FL 12:52PM November 08, 2011

Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education by Sam Seidel is a 2011 book with a detailed study of the High School for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. It describes the founding and operation of this remarkable charter school that serves urban youth. The school and a private business work together to make the professional recording studios and equipment available for students for real life experiences.

Wayne Jennings of MN 4:57PM November 07, 2011

We are entering a new and exciting space for educational reform by truly adapting cultural practices that support and enhance the learning capabilities of young urban youth who embrace the Hip Hop culture as a conduit to the rest of their lives. Being able to provide the necessary analysis of this shift and its varied practices is what the Hip Hop Education Center at NYU Stienhardt Metro Center seeks to advocate.
We as a nation must embrace not just our ethnic diversities but our creative and cultural practices which we employ for use in our daily lives. Hip Hop has a transnational affect that has cross all kinds of ideology and nationalities, this is unlike any cultural shift since the 60s yet it is far more influential and progressive so this is why we must consider all the positive facets of the culture and begin integrating them into an educational experience that lifts the imagination of an already waning body of students that feel alienated.

Carlos Mare139 Rodriguez of NY 12:20PM November 07, 2011