Posted on 03/30/2010 5:38:44 PM PDT by DFG
It is with great sadness, heavy heart, and moist eyes that I pass on the news to you that Jaime Escalante died today in Reno, Nevada while undergoing cancer treatment. Escalante has been one of my heroes since my days covering education in Los Angeles for the LA Daily News in the early 1990s. He was 79.
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It’s obvious he didn’t teach Obama.
Sad news.
Stand and Deliver
Escalente was a hero of mine. In 56 years, I can count my heroes(like Reagan)at about 10.
God, he is all yours now.
I got the DVD of this story, just last week.
Some teachers care. It makes all the difference.
May he rest in peace.
His was a great story. My wife will be sad to hear of his passing.
Escalente was a hero of mine. In 56 years, I can count my heroes(like Reagan)at about 10.
God, he is all yours now.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.
He is a hero of mine.
God love him!!! He did an amazing thing with the kids in L.A.
Escalante beat Beverly Hills High AP test scores in 5 of 8 years. This time, the legend was the truth.
In real life Escalante was MORE than what they dared to portray in the film. Read the book. All he did was motivate students to study three hours a day. During Christmas break. Going home to home. In a school where half the parents didn’t speak English. With students who were assigned “Math 10” (bureaucratese for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division for high school students so we can pretend they have a high school education). Took those students, threw out the Math 10 book, and taught them math. Better numbers than Bronx Science. So good that Asians moved en masse into the area just for his teaching.
God continues to go with you, Jaime.
I’m not sure what to say now but Mr Escalante was a fabulous teacher!
He will be greatly missed by his former students.
He made a small number of youths better people by making them apply their minds.
Rest In Peace Mr. Escalante!
If you want to know something about a teacher, ask the students.
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Good movie.
Sad news. I watched Stand and Deliver in high school during math and Spanish classes. I know that watching movies during school hours isn’t the best idea in the world, but this was after semester finals were over, IIRC, and this wasn’t Terminator II or American Pie. Very inspiring story.
“Jaime exposed one of the most dangerous myths of our time — that inner city students can’t be expected to perform at the highest levels.” - Edward James Olmos
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