Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutierrez (December 31, 1930 ? March 30, 2010) was a Bolivian-born American (People of the United States) educator well-known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School, East Los Angeles, California (Garfield High School (Los Angeles County, California)). Escalante was the subject of the 1988 (1988 in film) film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos.
Caption: Jaime Escalante
Date of birth: 1930-12-31
Birth Location: La Paz, Bolivia
Date of death: 2010-03-30
Death Location: Roseville, California, U.S.
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