Jaime Escalante

Jaime Escalante (b. December 31, 1930) is a former Garfield High School (Los Angeles Unified School District) mathematics teacher who achieved national fame when his highly successful math class was dramatized in Stand and Deliver.

Awards

• 1988 - Presidential Medal for Excellence in Education, awarded by former President Ronald Reagan ^{http://schwarzenegger.com/en/news/uptotheminute/news_upto_en_edsumm.asp?sec=news&subsec=uptotheminute}
• 1988 - Hispanic Heritage Awards Honoree ^{http://hispanicheritageawards.org/hispanic_det.php?id=21}
• 1989 - Honorary Doctor of Science - University of Massachusetts at Boston ^{http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1991/1991y.html}
• 1990 - Honorary Doctor of Humanities - California State University at Los Angeles ^{http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/ppa/media/cslainf1.htm}
• 1990 - Honorary Doctor of Education - Concordia University ^{http://graduatestudies.concordia.ca/pdf/05-06/PartI/b-university05.pdf}
• 1990 - Honorary Doctor of Laws - University of Northern Colorado ^{http://www.unco.edu/grad/forms/honorary_degrees.pdf}
• 1998 - Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters - Wittenberg University ^{http://www4.wittenberg.edu/news/1998/commspeaker.shtml}
• 1998 - Free Spirit Award, from the Freedom Forum
• 1998 - Andrés Bello prize, from the Organization of American States
• 1999 - Inductee Teacher's Hall of Fame ^{http://www.nthf.org/inductee/escalante.htm}