Stand and Deliver

:For the song by Adam & the Ants see Stand and Deliver (song). Stand and Deliver is also the name of a snowboarding film produced by Mack Dawg Productions.

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Adam & the Ants - Stand and Deliver (song) - Snowboarding

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Stand and Deliver (1988) is a film dramatizing the work of Jaime Escalante, a dedicated high school mathematics teacher.

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1988 - Film - Drama - Jaime Escalante - High school - Mathematics - Teacher

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In the film, he helped 18 Hispanic students at James Garfield High School (located in the East Los Angeles CDP of Los Angeles County, California) learn calculus well enough to pass the Advanced Placement mathematics exam, even though originally many of them struggled with such elementary principles as multiplication and vulgar fractions.

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Hispanic - East Los Angeles - CDP - Los Angeles County, California - Calculus - Advanced Placement - Exam - Multiplication - Vulgar fraction

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Edward James Olmos starred as Escalante; Lou Diamond Phillips, Vanessa Marquez, Rosanna DeSoto, and Carmen Argenziano co-starred.

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Edward James Olmos - Lou Diamond Phillips - Vanessa Marquez - Rosanna DeSoto - Carmen Argenziano

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Tagline: A true story about a modern miracle.

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