By infusing lessons with content that is relevant to students' lives, inspires their curiosity, and fires up their intellect, this book explores how teachers can use hip-hop education to help students better take in information and think critically about concepts, inside and outside the classroom.

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Chapter 1: "a change Is gonna come" -- A call to action-to embrace arts-based education and reach students through the framework and culture of hip-hop -- Chapter 2: from chattel to charter schools -- The history of the US educational system and its impact on our national aptitude -- Chapter 3: from Glyphs to Graf -- The role of the arts in our lives to tell stories, express ourselves, and uncover our shared humanity -- Chapter 4: from Nature to neuroscience -- Evidence-based findings about behavior and the brain and how this plays out in classrooms -- Chapter 5: hip-hop hooray -- How a micro-culture became THE culture that can transform education -- Chapter 6: the five elements of hip-hop as an educational framework -- Emceeing, deejaying, graffiti, breakin', and knowledge of self -- Chapter 7: crafting the arts-based, culturally responsive and rigorous lesson -- Intro, verse, coda, remix, and samples -- Chapter 8: it lives within all of us.