Jaime Escalante

Educator from Bolivia · Bolivia · On the map · Educators · Lived 1930 to 2010 · aged 79

Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez was a Bolivian-American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos.

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