Escalante has studied in several universities and colleges in his life. He attended Escuela Normal Simon Bolivar and graduated with a teaching degree. After five years in , he received yet another degree in Mathematics. After this streak of studying he renewed his skills every four to five years, getting a Standard teaching credential.
Jaime Escalante started working in Bolivia as a teacher of mathematics and physics. He was teaching those subjects for 12 years. After this experience, he decided to move to the United States. Initially, in the United States, he did not work as a teacher, but did several other low-level jobs, while studying the English language and attending another University. Precisely at the same time, the accreditation of the school was questioned, but Jame Escalante did not agree to lower the standards for his students to save the school.
He did precisely the opposite — he raised the rules, which forced students to study more and with a higher sense of responsibility. He offered his students a perspective of good jobs and careers if they paid enough attention to his subject — maths. The perspective fields he provided were electronics, computers, engineering and some others.
Jaime Escalante's initiative in the school was not welcomed too openly, until the change of the principal in the school. As soon as Henry Gradillas started working as the principal, he motivated Escalante to continue what he had already begun. Henry Gradillas reduced the number of primary math classes and increased the number of algebra classes, and enforced some other ideas of Escalante to achieve better results.
In Jaime Escalante first started teaching Calculus. Initially, only five students attended it, and only two passed, but the following years the ratio increased exponentially. The results seemed faked, and therefore several students had to re-do the review, and twelve of the students who agreed to do the exam again, passed it.
By , 73 students passed the AB version of the exam, and another 12 passed the BC version. No student who did not know multiplication tables or fractions was ever taught calculus in a single year. Escalante suffered inflammation of the gallbladder, not a heart attack.
Escalante worked as a dishwasher for a local restaurant and later became a cook. He learned English mainly through television, and eventually enrolled in some classes at Pasadena City College. As a child Escalante amused himself by playing soccer, basketball, and handball. He also spent a considerable amount of time with his grandfather, who was a retired teacher and an amateur philosopher. Why did Lupe get mad at Pancho?
He said their relationship was only for the summer. What did Escalante say to the test reps? Jaime Escalante was born in La Paz, Bolivia in
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