Title: Jaime Escalante Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
Headings: Jaime Escalante Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
Jaime Escalante
Also Known For : Teacher
Birth Place : La Paz, Bolivia
Died On : March 30, 2010
Zodiac Sign : Capricorn
Jaime Escalante Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
Early life and education
Development of career
Calculus class
Recognition
Further work
Later life

Content: Precisely at the same time, the accreditation of the school was questioned, but Jame Escalante did not agree to lower the standards for his students to save the school. He did precisely the opposite – he raised the rules, which forced students to study more and with a higher sense of responsibility. He offered his students a perspective of good jobs and careers if they paid enough attention to his subject – maths. The perspective fields he provided were electronics, computers, engineering and some others. Jaime Escalante's initiative in the school was not welcomed too openly, until the change of the principal in the school. As soon as Henry Gradillas started working as the principal, he motivated Escalante to continue what he had already begun. Henry Gradillas reduced the number of primary math classes and increased the number of algebra classes, and enforced some other ideas of Escalante to achieve better results. Calculus class
In 1978 Jaime Escalante first started teaching Calculus. Initially, only five students attended it, and only two passed, but the following years the ratio increased exponentially. In 1979 nine students took the class, and seven passed the test, and the interest in Escalante’s calculus class kept growing from year to year.