Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday.

Legendary math teacher Jaime Escalante has died at the age of 79 from bladder cancer. Escalante was the inner city Los Angeles high school teacher who transformed poor, under-achieving Hispanic ...

LOS ANGELES — Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus ...

Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday.

San Diego, California (CNN)-- Jaime Escalante was ahead of his time. And today, more than 30 years after the Bolivian-born math teacher put East Los Angeles' Garfield High School on the map by ...

LOS ANGELES – Jaime Escalante, the math teacher who transformed a tough East Los Angeles high school and inspired the movie “Stand and Deliver,” died Tuesday. He was 79. Escalante died at ...

"Ganas is all you need." Jaime Escalante was a one of a kind teacher known for his innovative methods to teach inner city students in Los Angeles with social and economic problems. Escalante was a ...

The teacher who saves a shy girl with too much IQ for the room from vanishing into the back row. Whose extra attention steers a gangbanger to the university. In other words, the next Jaime Escalante.

But the weather didn't dampen the enthusiasm of many Garfield graduates, who came from all over Los Angeles and beyond to show their support for their former teacher, Jaime Escalante. Escalante's ...

Jaime Escalante, the Bolivian-born teacher who inspired students in East Los Angeles and then around the world, was introduced to many of his admirers through the power of the movie screen.

Now, [Escalante] needs our help ... him a chance to beat the cancer that has afflicted him. Of the inspiring teacher, Olmos remarks: The love and dedication he gave to his inner city students ...

Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday.