Title: Teacher Portrayed in 'Stand And Deliver' Dies : NPR
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Content: Garfield educates some of Los Angeles' poorest students, many of them from immigrant families, and many of whom never conceived of college as a possibility. But Escalante did. Web Resources
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YouTube: Actor Edward James Olmos As Jaime Escalante in "Stand And Deliver"
The Bolivian-born teacher believed math was the portal to any success his students could achieve later in life. So before school formally began, and after school ended, his door was open for extra help. And the students came on weekends and worked through holidays to prepare for the hardest exam of all — the Advanced Placement calculus exam. "It was hard," says Mark Baca, who now works with a Los Angeles nonprofit. " But he changed the minds of people all over the world about barrio kids." Escalante's barrio kids became stars, exemplars of what can happen when knowledge-thirsty kids with ganas — a deep desire — to succeed combine with a dedicated teacher with ganas for their success.