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Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez (December 31, 1930 – March 30, 2010) was a Bolivian -American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos.
Troy High School has the distinction of winning the most national titles (13 as of 2019) in the Science Olympiad. [7] It is one of the seven high schools in California and one of 59 in the country to be awarded a New American High Schools status by the United States Department of Education. [8] The school is located next to the continuing La ...
List of televised academic student quiz programs. Kennedy High School on WMAQ-TV's It's Academic in 1967. Student quiz shows have appeared on television as both local and national programs since the second half of the 20th century. The following is a list of quiz programs that have aired on local or national television, featuring teams from ...
The youngest candidate on the Fresno Unified ballot this election says he’s running to give students a voice on the school board. Joseph Aquino, a 19-year-old Fresno State sophomore, is ...
Grade skipping. Grade skipping is a form of academic acceleration, [1] often used for academically talented students, that enables the student to skip entirely the curriculum of one or more years of school. Grade skipping allows students to learn at an appropriate level for their cognitive abilities, and is normally seen in schools that group ...
6600 Westown Parkway Suite 270. West Des Moines, Iowa 50266. United States. Website. speechanddebate.org. The National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) is the largest interscholastic speech and debate organization serving middle school and high school students in the United States. [1] It was formed as the National Forensic League in 1925 ...
Quiz bowl (quizbowl, [ 1 ]scholars' bowl, scholastic bowl, academic bowl, academic team, academic challenge, etc.) is a family of quiz -based competitions that test players on a wide variety of academic subjects. Standardized quiz bowl formats are played by primary school, middle school, high school, and university students throughout North ...
The school's computer systems lab is one of the few high school computing facilities with a supercomputer. In 1988, a team from the school won an ETA-10P supercomputer in the SuperQuest competition, a national science competition for high school students. [55] The ETA-10P was damaged by a roof leak in the 1990s.