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To: george76
teacher Jaime Escalante “taught calculus so successfully in a predominantly Latino school that, at one time, something like one-fourth of all Latino students who passed the AP calculus test – in the entire country – came from the school where he taught.”

So the Union had to get rid of him. It figures ...

3 posted on 05/31/2017 6:28:57 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: BlackVeil
There's a terrific movie about Jaime Escalante, starring Edward James Olmos. It was quite an uplifting movie.

Mark

19 posted on 05/31/2017 7:04:54 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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