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- 04-05-2010
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By Sandy Banks/Los Angeles Times
High expectations. That's been the shorthand explanation for the accomplishments of Garfield High math teacher Jaime Escalante, whose death on Tuesday prompted tributes from Washington, D.C., to East Los Angeles. Escalante was lionized in the 1987 movie "Stand and Deliver" for turning barrio kids into calculus whizzes by stressing hard work and high standards. But could it really be as simple as that? I went to Escalante's former students to find out what his legacy tells us. Anthony Garcia wasn't one of Jaime Escalante's calculus stars. He was an 11th-grader enrolled in basic math when the new teacher was assigned his Garfield High class. (more...)
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