EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Crowds lined up at Garfield High School on Saturday to celebrate the new postal stamp honoring legendary educator Jaime Escalante. The math teacher's classroom achievements ...

EAST LOS ANGELES Vanessa Marquez, an actress and friend of Escalante's who held a fundraiser for Escalante, said he died at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at his home in Sacramento with his family at his ...

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LOS ANGELES "Jaime Escalante will forever be the most well known teacher in America and the world," said Olmos. In his day, Jaime Escalante helped transform East L.A.'s Garfield High by motivating ...

Jaime Escalante died yesterday. He was 79, and had been suffering from bladder cancer. Even if you don't recognize the name, you've probably heard of him. The inner-city math teacher who inspired the ...

Bolivia announced plans Friday to honor its native son Jaime Escalante, whose success teaching advanced math at a tough Los Angeles high school inspired the movie "Stand and Deliver. By The Associated ...

This is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed for KCRW. These days, to be a parent with children in Los Angeles area schools is to live in fear. Fear that it might all go wrong, that your kid might be ...

This article -- written by Wayne Hanson and Bob Graves -- was originally published in Government Technology's Visions Magazine in December 1998 Jaime Escalante was born in Bolivia, became a teacher in ...