Awareness-Raising Campus Lectures part of QuIRK:QR Program Design
"Erasing the Achievement Gap in PublicEducation: Is No Child Left Behind the Solution?" Lloyd Bond, Consulting Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (April 23, ...

The Case for Integrating Writing and QR part of QuIRK:QR Program Design
"numbers [are] the principal language of public argument" -Website for the BBC Radio 4 program More or Less In "The Case for Quantitative Literacy" Steen (2001) warns, "The world of the ...

Other QR Programs and Resources part of QuIRK:QR Program Design
National Organizations in Support of Quantitative Reasoning National Numeracy Network American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) Mathematical Association of America's quantitative literacy ...

Designing a Quantitative Reasoning Program: The QuIRK Experience part of QuIRK:QR Program Design
"Curricular talk tends to be dominated by disciplines....With no discipline naturally exercising leadership, there is neither an insistent nor a consistent call to make quantitative literacy a priority of ...

QuIRK's Professional Development Curriculum part of QuIRK:QR Program Design
"Faculty in all disciplines need significant professional support in order for them to enhance the role of quantitative [reasoning] in their courses." -National Council on Education and the Disciplines, ...

Key Elements of the QuIRK Initiative part of QuIRK:QR Program Design
"How do we teach quantitative literacy? It takes a conspiracy." -Deborah J. Hughes Hallett, at the Quantitative Literacy and Its Implications for Teacher Education conference hosted by Wingspread and ...