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Stand and Deliver

Air Date: Saturday September 12, 2009 at 9pm on THIRTEEN

Stand and Deliver (1988): 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.

Directed by Ramón Menéndez

[via IMDB]

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2 comments on “Stand and Deliver”
yvette mandel -- September 18th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

I enjoy Reel 13 very much. Is it possible to get e-mails on each weeks progam?

Reflection: Brave New Schools, Chapter 5 « MD469 / Fall 2009 blog -- September 24th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

[...] was in this frame of mind when, during a channel-surfing session, I stumbled upon a rebroadcast of the movie Stand and Deliver on Channel 13 this weekend, the “based on a true story” dramatization of Jaime Escalante’s [...]

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