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Donna Fisher, resource teacher for English language arts for the Pearl City-Waipahu complex area, has been creating rap songs — about 200 — for the past 20 years as a tool to teach middle schoolers.
The Hip-Hop Chess Federation is a San Francisco-area group that uses rap and chess to teach kids life lessons about strategy, discipline and creativity. This weekend, the organization hosts its first ...
A Kansas City MC turned entrepreneur has created an app that uses hip hop music to promote education and healthy living to kids One day, while driving his young son to school, Scott had a “light bulb ...
A dad sings the praises of rap music for kids. “This song is dedicated to Cartner, to Gideon and to Gabe. It’s called ‘I Love My Mom,'” a rapper said in the song intro. The song then repeated the same ...
The phrase “rapping teacher” may draw a cringe from many teens, but a pair of Georgia teachers have gone viral for the surprisingly high-quality music video they released to get their students amped ...
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CORRECTION: Chadwick Phillips was introduced to hip-hop by his brother Segrin. An earlier version of this story named a different brother. Rap battles in the halls of Everett High School led Chadwick ...