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Outlier2 -> Jamie Escalante, Stand and Deliver teacher, RIP (4/3/2010 5:31:04 PM)
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Jaime Escalante died this week. He was an inspiring teacher.
This man from Bolivia achieved fame when he was portrayed by Edward James Olmos
in the 1988 movie Stand and Deliver.
This is from one of the links:
Original: Washington Post Dec 12, 1982
"LOS ANGELES -- Garfield High School, a drab block of concrete in the middle of a low-income, Hispanic neighborhood in East Los Angeles, has been known for high absenteeism and youth gangs, but never for higher mathematics. Perhaps that is what fooled the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J.
In the May 19 national advanced placement calculus test, which is so difficult that only 2 percent of graduating high school seniors ever attempt it, a startling total of 18 Garfield students passed. Many had similar correct answers and seven made the top score of five, what one Garfield teacher compared with "walking on water."
Sensitive to the slightest hint of invalid scores, the service, which composes the Scholastic Aptitude Test and other national examinations, demanded a retest for 14 of the students, but the results were the same. It had stumbled across, not a cabal of cheaters, but the students of Jaime Escalante, 51, a Bolivian immigrant who has performed a miracle in a tough, big-city school.
In the process, he also has shown what a rigidly organized classroom routine and a deep devotion to teaching might do to solve what is becoming a national crisis."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040201518.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/30/AR2010033003814.html?sid=ST2010033003904
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