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Photo: David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images
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Name
Jaime Escalante
Birth Date
December 31, 1930
Death Date
March 30, 2010
Education
Garfield High School
Place of Birth
La Paz, Bolivia
Who Was Jaime Escalante? Early Life
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Jaime Escalante
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(1930–2010)
Updated: Aug 22, 2019
Original: Apr 1, 2014
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Jaime Escalante became famous for his work with troubled, "unteachable" high school math students. His story was told in the 1988 film 'Stand and Deliver.' Who Was Jaime Escalante? Jaime Escalante was an educator who was born in Bolivia and came to the United States in the 1960s to seek a better life. He began teaching math to troubled students in a violent Los Angeles school and became famous for leading many of them to pass the advanced placement calculus test. He was played by Edward James Olmos in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver.