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Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American biographical comedy-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 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.
The high school's magnet program is dedicated to students aspiring to pursue studies in the field of Computer Science. [3] Garfield High School gained recognition through the film "Stand and Deliver," which tells the story of teacher Jaime Escalante, and the HBO film "Walkout."
By using the app to give students—sometimes up to 35 in the classroom—immediate feedback on their first drafts, Sánchez Bermúdez has more time to work with students individually.
Dec. 15—Reading from a script is easier than acting and memorizing lines; several members of Upstart Readers agreed on this point during a recent afternoon chat — but that doesn't mean it's easy.
Like a student who studies hard but just doesn’t have the smarts, this joyless send-up of the Dangerous Minds, Stand and Deliver, idealistic-teacher-in-a-ghetto-school genre plods along earnestly with barely passing grades. B.O. prospects appear below average: Given the lack of youth-oriented fare in the marketplace, target teen audiences may ...
In 2012, the students at José Urbina López Elementary School in Matamoros, Mexico, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, got the highest scores on the national standardized test, beating ...
A large part of the plot parodies the film, Stand and Deliver (Garfield High School / Jim Davis High School)--and Dangerous Minds—with Cartman assuming a similar role that of Jaime Escalante, although where in the film, the students are falsely accused of cheating, in the episode, the students actually do cheat, at Cartman's encouragement, and get away with it.