It looks like the anti-standardized testing movement just got itself a theme song.
New York-based teacher/rapper Jeremy Dudley (aka Origin) is contributing his voice to the debate over high-stakes testing with his recently dropped song, “Stop This Madness.”
The song, in which Dudley describes himself as a “frontline passionate true student advocate,” argues that standardized testing is not in the best interest of students and that it is “standardizing … a whole generation.”
Over the weekend, Dudley, a teacher of 13 years, performed the song alongside thousands of protestors who were in Albany to rally against New York state’s recent common core tests. The state’s common core tests, which were given in late April,