Q&A: Jaime Escalante stills stands, delivers advice From: sacbee.com
Tagged: Jaime EscalantePosted on: May 5th, 2008
Jaime Escalante, whose success in teaching advanced mathematics to inner-city Los Angeles teenagers was immortalized in the movie “Stand and Deliver,” will be honored today at the Capitol.
Escalante, 78, is one of 14 trailblazers receiving Latino Spirit Awards from the California Latino Legislative Caucus.
Escalante, now living and teaching college classes part time in Bolivia, taught for 17 years at Los Angeles’ Garfield High School and for seven years at Sacramento’s Hiram Johnson High School, retiring in 1998.”*
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