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Jaime A. Escalante
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Stand and Deliver: Directed by Ramón Menéndez. With Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris. The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.
- Ramón Menéndez
- 1 min
Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. For portraying Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards. [3]
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
Stand and Deliver - Full Cast & Crew. Teacher Jaime Escalante's unconventional methods inspire unmotivated students at a Los Angeles barrio high school. Fact-based.
- Ramon Menendez
L.A. teacher Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos) leads lowly class into calculus.
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