Title:
Jaime Escalante teaches a class at Garfield High School in Los Angeles (Calif.)
Jamie Escalante, a Garfield High School chemistry teacher. A demanding taskmaster, Escalante has been affectionately dubbed
"Kimo" by his students, who think of themselves as ever-faithful Tontos to his Lone Ranger. Escalante has upgraded calculus
courses and brought a new motivation to students at Garfield High in predominantly Latino East Los Angeles. Last year, a testing
service unsuccessfully challenged the results when 18 of his students who took an advanced placement calculus test passed--seven
with perfect scores
Creator/Contributor:
Los Angeles Times (Firm), Publisher
Galvez, Jose, Photographer
Date:
August 10, 1983
Contributing Institution:
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
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