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- Jaime Escalante's Legacy, In and Out of the ClassroomJaime Escalante died yesterday. He was 79, and had been suffering from bladder cancer. Even if you don't recognize the name, you've probably heard of him. The inner-city math teacher who...
- Jaime Escalante | Encyclopedia.comJaime Escalante: 1930 —: Educator. A Bolivian immigrant who worked as a math teacher in East Los Angeles, Jaime Escalante gained national recognition for transforming the math department of a poor Hispanic high school. Escalante's unorthodox teaching style motivated hundreds of students to sacrifice their free time and other activities to ...
- Jaime Escalante - WikipediaJaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez (December 31, 1930 – March 30, 2010) was a Bolivian -American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos .
- Jaime Escalante's Legacy: Teaching Hope : NPRFor 20 years, Jaime Escalante taught calculus and advanced math at Garfield High School in one of East Los Angeles' most notorious barrios, a place where poor, hardened street kids were not...
- Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A ...Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday. He was...
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