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Students "Stand and Deliver" for Teacher
Escalente is dying. Former students have stepped up to help provide for his care, until he passes.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/04/eveningnews/main6267789.shtml...In the 1980s, Escalante was striving to turn inner city kids in Los Angeles into top-achieving math students, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.
Olmos played Escalante in the 1988 movie "Stand and Deliver," and the world learned of the inspirational teacher and the unlikely students who excelled in the nation's toughest college entrance math exam...
Escalente is dying. Former students have stepped up to help provide for his care, until he passes.