Jaime Escalante

Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutierrez (født 31. desember 1930, død 30. mars 2010) var en boliviansk skolemann som ble kjent for å undervise matematisk analyse på Garfield High School, East Los Angeles, California  fra 1974 til 1991.  Escalante ble portrettert i filmen (1988) Stand and Deliver,  hvor Escalante blir spilt av Edward James Olmos.

Æresbevisninger 
 1988 – Presidential Medal for Excellence in Education, gitt av USAs president Ronald Reagan 
 1988 – Hispanic Heritage Awards Honoree  
 1988 - Tildeles Cóndor de los Andes av Bolivias president Víctor Paz Estensoro
 1989 – Æresdoktorat  – University of Massachusetts Boston 
 1990 – Æresdoktorat – California State University, Los Angeles 
 1990 – Æresdoktorat – Concordia University, Montréal 
 1990 – Æresdoktorat – University of Northern Colorado 
 1990 – Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.
 1998 – Æresdoktorat – Wittenberg University 
 1998 – Free Spirit Award, fra Freedom Forum
 1998 – Andrés Belloprisen, fra Organization of American States
 1999 – Medlem i National Teachers Hall of Fame 
 2002 – Medlem, President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans 
 2005 – The Highest Office Award – Center for Youth Citizenship
 2005 – Best teacher in North America – Freedom Forum

Referanser 

Terry Lee Marzell, Chalkboard Champions: Twelve Remarkable Teachers Who Educated America's Disenfranchised Students, Wheatmark 2012

Eksterne lenker 

 Hall of Fame profile
 
 Jamie Escalante and the Lancaster Amish An MP3 of a talk by John Taylor Gatto
 Jaime Escalante documented his techniques in 

Fødsler i 1930
Dødsfall i 2010
Pedagoger