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...Harvard, Gleason was also the founder of the Core Curriculum's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR), a test on basic statistical and math abilities that all undergraduates must pass by the end of their freshman year. He currently serves as the QRR's chairman and as a representative to the Core's Board of Advisers...
...When the Core and QRR were being formed, several math professors believed that all Harvard freshmen should be required to take basic calculus courses. Gleason instead decided about 10 years ago to focus the QRR on the numerical skills an average student would need to survive college-level courses...
Gleason says that it was not until he began to work with the Core and the QRR, in fact, that he realized the extent to which many students loathe and even fear working with numbers...
...dealing with a core group of politically active students who can help mobilize the rest of the electorate," said Michael Albano, Graham's campaign manager...
...floors of the other, main cell swoop down through gentle ramps reminiscent of Wright's spiral in the Guggenheim Museum, hung above black water-filled moats. At each level are two tokonomas, large niches in which paintings from the Shin'enkan Collection can be hung. This collection is the core of the pavilion. It consists of some 300 screens and scrolls from the Edo period (1615-1868), assembled over the past 30 years by the Oklahoma collector Joe D. Price. In recent years, Price's collaborator has been LACMA's new curator of Japanese art, Robert T. Singer. The Shin...