Stand and Deliver - 6

This film is the true story of Jaime Escalante, who became a high school teacher and helps his failing students learn calculus and inspires them to value education. It does a good job of showing the assumptions that have shaped culture. Issues of race and school funding are part of the keys to understanding how amazing Escalante's methods of teaching were. The main issue come to a head when the ETS accuses the students of cheating (they all got the same questions wrong on the test). The students take the test again and do better on it the second time. At the end of the film it lists the number of students that passed the AP calculus exam. Escalante was able to change the perceptions that Hispanic students could not do well in math.