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Why hip-hop belongs in today's classrooms

  • Written by Nolan Jones, Associate Adjunct Professor, Mills College
Hip-hop officially became the most popular music genre in 2018 and continued its reign in 2019, according to Nielsen Music. Lev Radin/Shutterstock.com

When Cassie Crim, a high school math teacher in Joliet, Illinois, introduced herself to her advanced algebra students in 2017, she did it through a rap video.

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