![]() ![]() Over the next few years, he led 16 students to passing scores on the notoriously difficult AP exam, which at the time was taken by only about 3 percent of American high school students. Frustrated by the remedial math in which he was expected to instruct his primarily poor, Mexican-American students, he started an Advanced Placement calculus program. His salary was only $13,000, which he supplemented by teaching night school. ![]() In 1974, Escalante, a Bolivian immigrant, was hired as a teacher at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. The inner-city math teacher who inspired the movie Stand and Deliver, Escalante was, as one education blogger put it, "a reformer before it was cool to be one." Even if you don't recognize the name, you've probably heard of him. ![]() He was 79, and had been suffering from bladder cancer. ![]()
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