What's the Difference between Escalante: The Best Teacher in America the Book and Stand and Deliver the Movie?
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Stand and Deliver Book vs Movie
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Jaime Escalante begins teaching at Garfield High School in 1974. |
Jaime Escalante begins teaching at Garfield High School in 1982. |
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Several teachers as well as the principal support Escalante's ambition to teach AP Calculus |
The staff nearly unanimously oppose Escalante's ambition to teach AP Calculus
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Escalante suffers inflammation of the gallbladder at Garfield High School and drives himself home. He later goes to the hospital. |
Escalante suffers a heart attack while teaching night English courses to adults. |
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Several of Escalante's old students pressure him into giving him his car keys so they can repaint it at a reduced price. |
Escalante's students steal his car and paint it before returning it to him.
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No student who did not understand multiplication was taught calculus in a year, let alone pass the test. |
Students who did not know the multiplication tables at the beginning of the year nevertheless passed the AP test. |
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Escalante's first AP class was in 1978, and it only had five students at its end. |
Escalante's first AP class was in 1982, with few dropouts.
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