DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – This year’s star-studded Super Bowl halftime show featured some of the top names in the hip hop music industry – an industry that has evolved to become the biggest ...

Nearpod is trying to get kids more engaged in learning through technologies such as virtual reality. And today the Laurene Powell Jobs-backed company is acquiring Flocabulary, a maker of a student ...

When y=mx+b, b is the y-intercept, you’ll see. M is the slope, the rise over run. They’ll wait until we stop, but that day will never come. That’s a line from “ Linear Equations,” from Flocabulary, a ...

It’s out of the ordinary when Nearpod buys a company. Today it’s adding Flocabulary, to bring hip hop to the library. If Alex Rappaport, the co-founder and CEO of Flocabulary, had to bust a rhyme ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- An educational program used for at-risk students in the Oklahoma City Public School District is drawing criticism over content. Now top school district officials said funding for the ...

When each year’s graduating students take the stage to grab their high school diplomas, it’s a fun and sometimes bittersweet exercise to look back at the events that defined their lives. Thanks to ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KGO) -- The neighborhood near Mount Hood in Santa Rosa is a quiet area where you can usually hear birds singing in the distance. But lately, you can also hear a different kind of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the intersection of education and entrepreneurship. Nearpod is a comprehensive student engagement platform that enables ...

Alex Rappaport, the founder and CEO of Brooklyn-based Flocabulary, an educational program that specializes in teaching K-12 students core subjects using hip-hop songs, takes the No. 15 spot on Fast ...

Che Guevara was many things: a bloodthirsty executioner, a propagandist, an admirer of mass murderer Mao Zedong. But he was not a big fan of the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, whose support for ...

Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport were working the floor at the International Reading Conference in Toronto. It was spring 2007, and the two founders of the study-guide publisher Flocabulary had a lot ...