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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 79. More @Wikipedia
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- 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 79.
- Jamie Escalante - Movie, Teacher & Students - BiographyJaime Escalante was an educator who was born in Bolivia and came to the United States in the 1960s to seek a better life. He began teaching math to troubled students in a violent Los...
- 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,...
- Jaime Escalante, Math Teacher Behind 'Stand And Deliver', DiesLegendary math teacher Jaime Escalante has died at the age of 79 from bladder cancer. Escalante was the inner city Los Angeles high school teacher who transformed poor,...
- 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.
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