Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama based on the true story of high school math teacher Jaime Escalante. To illustrate Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards. The film was added to the National Film Registry Library of Congress in 2011.
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Plot
Jaime Escalante became a mathematics teacher at James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. The school is full of Hispanic students from working class families that are far below their class level in terms of academic skills and also have many social problems. Escalante seeks to change the school culture to help students excel in academics. He soon realizes the untapped potential of his class and sets the goal of having students take AP Calculus in their senior year. Escalante instructed his class under the ferocious philosophy , roughly translating it to "desire" or "motivation."
The students begin taking summer classes in advanced mathematics with Escalante, who must withhold cynicism from other faculties, who feel that students are not capable enough. As they struggle with the lower expectations they face in society, Escalante helps them overcome adversity and to pass the AP Calculus exam.
To his dismay, the Educational Testing Service questioned the success of the students, insisting there was too much overlap in their mistakes and advised the students to be cheated. Escalante defended his students and felt that the allegations were based more on racial and economic perceptions. He offered to have the students take the test back a few months later, and the students all managed to pass the test again, even though only one day to prepare, which ended all the cheating issues.
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Cast
Historical accuracy
Ten of the students signed the exemption to allow the College Board to show their exam section to Jay Mathews, author of Escalante: Best Teachers in America. Mathews found that nine of them had made "identical ridiculous errors" on the question of free response 6. Mathews heard from two students that during the exam, a piece of paper had been circulated with the wrong solution. Twelve students, including nine students with the same error, took the exam, and most of them received the top 4 and 5 scores. In 1987, 27% of all Mexican Americans who scored 3 or higher on the AP Calculus exam were students at Garfield High. Mathews writes in the Los Angeles Times that the character of Ana Delgado "is the only adolescent character in a movie based on a real person" and that his name has been changed.
Escalante first began teaching at Garfield High School in 1974 and taught his first AP Calculus course in 1978 with a group of 14 students. Only five students remain in the course at the end of the year, only two of them pass the AP Calculus exam. The Reason states, "Unlike the students in the film, the actual Garfield students needed careful preparation for years before they could take calculus, so Escalante set up a program at East Los Angeles College where students could took the classes at the seven-week intensive summer session Escalante and [head of Henry] Gradillas also played a role in getting a feeder school to offer algebra in the eighth and ninth grade.
Escalante himself described the film as "90% truth, 10% drama." He stated that a few points were left out of the movie. He pointed out that no student does not know the multiplication tables or fractions taught calculus in a year. Also, she suffered from gallbladder inflammation, not a heart attack.
Accolades
Legacy
In December 2011, Stand and Deliver was considered "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" by the United States Congress Library and elected for preservation at the National Film Registry. The Registry said the film was "one of the most popular of a new wave-narrative feature film produced in the 1980s by Latin filmmakers" and that it "celebrates directly, easily approachable, and impacts, self-improvement values ​​through hard work and power through knowledge. "
The film is recognized by the American Film Institute in this list:
- 2003: AFI 100 Years... 100 Heroes & amp; Criminals:
- Jaime A. Escalante - Nominated Hero
- 2006: AFI 100 Years... 100 Cheers - # 86
In popular culture
Episode South Park titled "Eek, Penis!" borrowed a lot from the Stand and Deliver plot, with Cartman assuming the same role that Edward James Olmos played, but in the movie, the students were slandered on charges of cheating. In the episode, the students are really fooled and get away with it.
US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is accused of plagiarizing the parts that are almost word-for-word from the plot summary of the Wikipedia article on Stand and Deliver in two speeches on immigration.
See also
- 1988 in the movie
- AFI 100 Years... 100 Cheers
- List of American films of 1988
References
External links
- Stand and Send on IMDb
- Stand and Send in AllMovie
- Stand and Send in Rotten Tomatoes
- Stand and Send in Mojo Box Office
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