Student Voice: A Revolution Worth Listening To

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

“Revolution” appears less than 10 times in the most recent NY State Regents test on US History, a requirement for high school graduation. Teaching the American Revolution has been supplanted with different revolutions, including labor reform and civil rights. The revolution is not dead, but it is different. Public school education is beginning to notice the student body and this is a revolution unto itself. How do you make history relevant; make it prevalent? This paper will address a revolution in teaching through the introduction of Consortium Schools: 30 public schools that removed themselves from the regents requirements. Consortium schools ask students to defend theses in core subjects for graduation instead. This has allowed one US History teacher to teach the revolution in a way that allowed students to evaluate information versus regurgitate and this mini-revolution in pre-college education is worth discussing for those involved in higher education.

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• Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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