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Jaime Escalante

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher who achieved national fame when his highly successful math class was dramatized in Stand and Deliver. After many fruitful years of prepping East Los Angeles teens for the Calculus AP test, Escalante retired to his native Bolivia. [1]

Escalante has described the film as "90% truth, 10%" drama. Points left out of the film:

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