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Stand and deliver (Motion picture)

An East LA math teacher inspires his 18 students to excel at the subject and do well on the National Advanced Placement Calculus Exam. A true story, based on the life of Jaime Escalante.

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  • "Con ganas de triunfar"
  • "Stand & deliver"@en

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  • "An East LA math teacher inspires his 18 students to excel at the subject and do well on the National Advanced Placement Calculus Exam. A true story, based on the life of Jaime Escalante."@en
  • "MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT. Duration: 99 minutes."
  • "Stand and deliver: A teacher in a Los Angeles barrio inspires his students to excel at math and to pass the Calculus Advanced Placement Test."@en
  • "Basada en la historia de Jaime Escalante, se dramatiza la lucha de un maestro de matemáticas quien no se da por vencido ni abandona a sus estudiantes de los barrios pobres del centro de Los Angeles."
  • "Lean on me: A bat-and-bullhorn wielding principal in New Jersey turns a failing school around with his tough love methods."@en
  • "Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, refuses to write off his kids as losers. He cajoles, pushes, wheedles, needles, threatens and inspires 18 kids to become math whizzes. Then they take the National Advanced Placement Calculus exam with surprising results."@en
  • ""In 1982, a new troublemaker hit Garfield High. He was tough. He was wild. He was willing to fight. He was the new math teacher. ... A dedicated teacher inspires his dropout-prone students to learn calculus to build up their self-esteem and [they] do so well that they are accused of cheating. ... Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood [Garfield High School in East Los Angeles]. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students"--Internet movie database, as viewed on March 23, 2007."
  • "Based on the experiences of real-life inspirational maths teacher Jaime Escalante who gave up a well paid job to teach at an east Los Angeles high school notorious for drugs and gang-related violence. Refusing to accept the poor performance of his Latino students as lack of ability, Escalante pushes and cajoles his class to become maths wizards. When they pass a national exam which no student of the school has ever passed before, the Educational Testing Service refuses to accept the results and the students are forced to re-sit the exam."@en
  • "Teacher Jaime Escalante inspires his East L.A. barrio students to pass the National Advanced Placement Calculus Exam. Based on a true story."
  • "Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students."@en
  • "An East LA math teacher inspires his 18 students to excel at the subject and do well on the National Advanced Placement Calculus Exam. Based on the life of Jaime Escalante."
  • "Based on the true story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher from East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who refuses to write off the inner-city students."
  • "Jaime Escalante, un maestro de matematicas de la Escuela Secundaria Garfield en el Este de Los Angeles, quien rehusa aceptar que sus estudiantes son unos incompetentes. Escalante, con adulacion, apremio, halagos, vejaciones y amenazas, inspira a 18 muchachos que tienen dificultades con quebrados y divisiones compuestas, para que se conviertan en genios de matematicas."@en
  • "Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers. Escalante cajoles, pushes, threatens, and inspires 18 high school students who were struggling with fractions to become math whizzes."
  • "Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at an inner-city East Los Angeles high school, motivates his students to strive to succeed in the classroom and in life."
  • "This film, based on fact, is the story of Jaime Escalante, an electronics engineer who abandoned a lucrative career to teach a group of inner city Chicano students the value of education. Arriving at Garfield High in east Los Angeles, Escalante found the school caught in the vicious circle of poor academic records and degenerating school standards. Battling almost insurmountable odds, he taught the unruly youngsters to excel in calculus. When the entire class passed a difficult exam, education authorities suspected cheating, forcing Escalante and his pupils to again prove their academic merit. (Circulates)."
  • "Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who refuses to give up on his inner-city, mainly Hispanic, students. Escalante pushes and inspires his students who were struggling with math to become excellent students."
  • "Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers."
  • "Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers. Escalante pushes and inspires 18 students who were struggling with math to become math whizzes."
  • "Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who refuses to write off his inner-city students as losers. Escalante pushes and inspires 18 students who were struggling with math to become math whizzes."@en
  • "True story about a mathematics teacher at an East Los Angeles high school, who wants his Hispanic inner-city students to pass a calculus exam."@en
  • "Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who pushes and inspires 18 inner-city Hispanic students who were struggling with math to become math whizzes."@en
  • "Story of Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East Los Angeles' Garfield High School, who pushes and inspires 18 inner-city Hispanic students who were struggling with math to become math whizzes."

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  • "Llargmetratges"
  • "Fiction films"@en
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  • "Biographical films"
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  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
  • "fiction dramatique (fiction)"
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  • "National Film Registry"@en
  • "Feature films"
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  • "Features"
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  • "Stand and deliver (Motion picture)"
  • "Stand and deliver (Motion picture)"@en
  • "Stand and deliver Lean on me : drama double feature"@en
  • "Stand and deliver (Motion picture : 1988)"
  • "Stand and deliver Con ganas de triunfar"
  • "Stand and deliver (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica)"
  • "Stand and Deliver"
  • "Stand and Deliver"@en
  • "Stand and deliver (con ganas de triunfar)"@en
  • "Stand and deliver"
  • "Stand and deliver"@en
  • "Stand and deliver [Spanish version]"

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