Video: How Rap Battles Are Helping High Schoolers Learn to Love Science

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/07/rap-science-genius-gza/

Sometimes I worry that if people are only scanning headlines they might think the only advance in the teaching of math and science over the past 30 years is rap music. While I'm sure some students have been helped in some way by rapping their facts, I'm pretty sure this phenomena gets way more attention than it deserves compared to other research-based classroom practices.