Stand and Deliver? That Might Be a Little More Difficult Now....
(Props to Phil)
Jaime Escalante, who helped Crips and Bloods calculate the area under the curve, has died of bladder cancer at the age of 79. Escalante’s efforts to bring calculus to the barrio were immortalized in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, where he was played by Edward James Olmos. One of Escalante’s first classes of students were accused of cheating, and their subsequent vindication made him a national figure, and pissed off colleagues who were more interested in tenure and getting summers off and didn’t like getting showed up a guy who was changing lives and inspiring kids.
Jaime Escalante, who helped Crips and Bloods calculate the area under the curve, has died of bladder cancer at the age of 79. Escalante’s efforts to bring calculus to the barrio were immortalized in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, where he was played by Edward James Olmos. One of Escalante’s first classes of students were accused of cheating, and their subsequent vindication made him a national figure, and pissed off colleagues who were more interested in tenure and getting summers off and didn’t like getting showed up a guy who was changing lives and inspiring kids.
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