Title: Teacher Portrayed in 'Stand And Deliver' Dies : NPR
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Content: He was 79. NPR's Claudio Sanchez has this appreciation. JAIME ESCALANTE: My assignment, it was not just to teach mathematics. It was to teach discipline and responsibility. CLAUDIO SANCHEZ: For 20 years, the Bolivian-born Escalante taught calculus and advanced math at Garfield High School in one of east L.A.'s most notorious barrios, a place where poor, hardened street kids were not supposed to master mathematics - certainly not algebra, trigonometry, calculus. But Escalante believed that a teacher should never, ever let a student give up. So I asked him what kept you from giving up. ESCALANTE: