Teachers who touched - "Stand and Deliver" film die (Antiwar)

A settler from Bolivia, he changed the Garfield High School by touching stressed the students to master and excel in superior math and science. The school had several Advanced situation calculus students than all but three other public high schools in the state.



A family friend said Jaime Escalante died Tuesday in Reno, Nev., Where he was the behavior of bladder tumor.
Olmos says Escalante proved that the inner city students can perform at the highest level, leaving an important legacy for American education.
Jaime Escalante, the math teacher who converted a tough East Los Angeles high school and touched the movie "Stand and Deliver," died Tuesday. He was 79.

Edward James Olmos playing Escalante in the 1988 movie based on his story.

"Jaime was suspended one of the most treacherous myths of our time - that inner city students are not expected to perform at the highest level," said Olmos. "Because of him as a derogatory term has been shattered forever."
Escalante was a teacher in La Paz, before emigrating to the U.S. He had to study English at night for years to get his California teaching credential and return to the classroom.
First, he was dissuaded by Garfield's "culture of low expectations, gang activity and administrative apathy," Miller said.
When he reviewed the school's math program and gave students who were previously considered unteachable to master advanced placement calculus test.
He used his outsized behavior spur his working class Mexican-American students to succeed, "said Elsa Bolado, 45, one of his former students.
Bolado, now a simple school teacher and coach, remembers Escalante's charisma - and how he built his insurance company with long hours to solve problems and how he inspired her with his unorthodox career choices loom for learning.
"Teaching is an art form. There are many practitioners, and very few artists. He was a master artist," she said.
Bolado took the AP calculus test in 1982, the year that testing officials did Garfield students retake it because they were suspicious that so many of Escalante students were gone. She said 14 students were asked to take the test again months later, and all 12 had passed.

Escalante left Garfield in 1991, taught at schools in Sacramento and withdrew to Bolivia in 2001.01.1.



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