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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...