Hip-hop studies the latest in mindless education trend The Daily Caller
"about 300,000 students across the country use the program. In more than 12,000 American schools, kids are rapping about English, history, science and math.
By most accounts, they love it.
And why wouldn’t they?
Singing’s more fun than studying."
But are they actually learning anything?
That’s less clear.
Despite endorsements from left-wing academics like Howard Zinn, there are still no independent studies that demonstrate rapping about social studies is any more educational than rapping about sex or gunfights.
One thing you can say about Flocabulary, though: it’s quick.
Let’s say you wanted to teach a room full of kids about the history of the civil rights movement.
You could spend weeks reading actual books on the subject, then explaining the facts of what happened and why.
Or, in a fraction of the time, you could simply recite a rap:
MLK had a dream, took it mainstream.
Civil Rights Bill, Voting Rights Acts, they passed.
Modern day Jesus, turning the other cheek,some blacks like “dog, that’s weak.
I’m not looking to get beat deep into next week,my everyday life is police brutality.
”Malcolm picked up X and dropped his slave name,radical change, “defense by any means.”
Went on hajj to Mecca, said ‘let God protect ya,Whites and Blacks, yeah, we’re in this together.’
But there are race riots, people are dying,Warfare in Watts, tear gas, bullets are flying.
So JFK?
He got assassinated.
MLK?
He got assassinated.
Malcolm X?
He got assassinated.
So it’s up to us to keep that dream alive…
It’s that simple. As long as you don’t care about context or accuracy – as long as your goal is to encourage students to “keep that dream alive,” rather than to teach them legitimate history – rapping is as good as teaching.Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/14/why-do-educators-keep-putting-dunce-caps-on-our-kids/#ixzz0nwVBJiib
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