Title: Jamie Escalante - Movie, Teacher & Students - Biography
Headings: 
Quick Facts
Jaime Escalante
Who Was Jaime Escalante?
Early Life
Professional Career
Later Years and Legacy
Fact Check
Citation Information
Article Title
Author
Website Name
URL
Access Date
Publisher
Last Updated
Original Published Date
BIOGRAPHY NEWSLETTER

Content: Some of the students' test scores were invalidated by the testing company because it believed that the students had cheated. Escalante protested, saying that the students had been disqualified because they were Hispanic and from a poor school. A few months later many of the students retook the test and passed, proving that they knew the material and that the company was wrong. Escalante's classroom challenges and successes were the topic of much public discussion in 1988. That year, his story was the subject of a book entitled Jaime Escalante: The Best Teacher in America and a film called Stand and Deliver starring Edward James Olmos. Both educators and students have found Escalante's work at Garfield inspiring. Later Years and Legacy
After Garfield, Escalante taught at another high school in Sacramento. He did not seem to find the same level of success that he had at his previous post. Escalante also received some criticism for lobbying against bilingual education in California schools.