Hip Hop in Schools
More Rap/Hip-Hop In Schools? ... This is a great example of how Rap and rap artists can be incorporated into today’s schools. Rap and hip-hop have so many benefits that they should have a more vital role in the school system. ... People say most Rap is Garbage Hip-hop -- brash, vulgar, and in-your-face-hip-hop -- is indisputably the dominant youth culture today. ... “I think that what causes the most grief is that hip-hop comes across as heartless, valueless, nihilistic, and certainly anachronistic if not atheistic” says Dr. ... Music in Schools A. Schools Using Jazz Washington Rose Elementary school in Long Island, New York is enveloped by the sights and sounds of Jazz. ... For example, education professors Ernest Morrell of Michigan State University and Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade of UCLA created and led a model English course incorporating hip-hop at Oakland High School. ... Having a hip-hop literature course would be a great idea for students who don’t view English and Poetry at “important” topics. ... Rap and hip-hop’s benefits are so undeniable that it’s a true wonder why they haven’t been implemented in the school system already. ... Schools that have used Jazz have had great results.