Fabulous speech! This white native Georgian, who has voted in every election since 1972, follows you on Substack, learns from you, appreciates you. I attend every meeting of my Clarke County Board of Elections. Voter suppression is real. Part of the plan; not fresh from Project 2025.
You’ll do great @Nick Valencia#JaimeEscalante #Teachers #WiseLeaders #Math #LatinoLand #Mexican #MexicanAmerican #Changemakers
Helpers from LatinoLand By Marie Arana
Page 355: "When inspiring Latino educators do appear, results can be striking: we saw this with the famous teacher memorialized in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, Jaime Escalante, who miraculously transformed a school of low-performing Mexican American teenagers given up for lost in the sprawling, broken neighborhoods of East Los Angeles into on the the most impressive engines of STEM the city had ever known.”
Page 356: “When Escalante finally retired from Garfield in 1991, the program withered, and the number of Hispanic students passing the AP calculus exams dropped by 80 percent.”
Reference:
Arana. M. (2024). LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority. Simon & Schuster, LLC.
Fabulous speech! This white native Georgian, who has voted in every election since 1972, follows you on Substack, learns from you, appreciates you. I attend every meeting of my Clarke County Board of Elections. Voter suppression is real. Part of the plan; not fresh from Project 2025.
Beautiful speech!! Well said.
Wonderful!!!
You’ll do great @Nick Valencia#JaimeEscalante #Teachers #WiseLeaders #Math #LatinoLand #Mexican #MexicanAmerican #Changemakers
Helpers from LatinoLand By Marie Arana
Page 355: "When inspiring Latino educators do appear, results can be striking: we saw this with the famous teacher memorialized in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, Jaime Escalante, who miraculously transformed a school of low-performing Mexican American teenagers given up for lost in the sprawling, broken neighborhoods of East Los Angeles into on the the most impressive engines of STEM the city had ever known.”
Page 356: “When Escalante finally retired from Garfield in 1991, the program withered, and the number of Hispanic students passing the AP calculus exams dropped by 80 percent.”
Reference:
Arana. M. (2024). LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority. Simon & Schuster, LLC.