LOS ANGELES -- A Los Angeles-area school has been named for late calculus teacher Jaime Escalante, whose story about pushing underachieving students t...
Edward Headington | Posted 05.25.2011
While there should be nothing inevitable about his candidacy, he has the energy and the experience to run a great campaign. Brown just needs to show a little more ganas: will, desire, motivation.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011
When Jaime Escalante died of cancer on March 30, we lost a pioneering teacher who changed people's ideas of what children are capable of learning. Man...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES (AP)-- The math teacher at a tough East Los Angeles high school who inspired the movie "Stand and Deliver," has died. He was 79. A fami...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
LOS ANGELES — Cast members of the 1988 movie "Stand and Deliver" are appealing for donations to help the movie's real-life subject, an East Los ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Jaime Escalante, the renowned math teacher whose efforts inspired the 1988 movie "Stand and Deliver" is fighting cancer and his family has run out of ...
AP | Posted 05.26.2011