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: Development of career
Jaime Escalante started working in Bolivia as a teacher of mathematics and physics. He was teaching those subjects for 12 years. After this experience, he decided to move to the United States. Initially, in the United States, he did not work as a teacher, but did several other low-level jobs, while studying the English language and attending another University. After graduating, in 1974 Jaime Escalante started working as a teacher at Garfield High School. 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.