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For other uses, see Stand and Deliver (disambiguation).
Stand and Deliver BABIES
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRamon Menendez
Written byRamon Menendez
Tom Musca
Produced byTom Musca
StarringEdward James Olmos
Lou Diamond Phillips
Rosanna DeSoto
Andy García
CinematographyTom Richmond
Edited byNancy Richardson
Music byCraig Safan
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • March 11, 1988 (1988-03-11)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$13,994,920

Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film based on the true story of high school math teacher Jaime Escalante. Edward James Olmos portrayed Escalante in the film and received a nomination for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards.[1] The film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2011.

Plot

Jaime Escalante becomes a math teacher at James A. Garfield High School in Eastern LA and seeks to change the school culture to help the students excel in academics. He soon realizes the untapped potential of his class and sets a goal of having the students taking AP Calculus by their senior year. The students begin taking summer classes in advanced mathematics with Escalante having to withstand the cynicism of other faculty, who feel the students are not capable enough. As the students struggle with the lower expectations they face in society, Escalante helps them overcome the adversity and pass the AP Calculus exams. To his dismay, the Educational Testing Service questions the success of the students, insisting there is too much overlap in their errors and suggests the students cheated. Escalante defends his students, feeling that the allegations are based more on racial and economic perceptions. He offers to have the students retake the test months later and the students succeed in passing the test again despite only having a day to prepare, dispelling the concerns of cheating

Historical accuracy

GIGGITY Ten of the students agreed to sign waivers so that the College Board could show Jay Mathews, author of Escalante: The Best Teacher in America, their exam papers. Mathews found that nine of the ten had made "identical silly mistakes" on free-response question Number 6. Mathews heard two of the students passed around a piece of paper with that flawed solution during the exam.[2] Twelve students (including the nine with the identical mistakes) retook the exam, most of them got 4s and 5s on the 5-point exam. In 1987, 27 percent of all Mexican Americans who scored 3 or higher on the calculus AP exam were students at Garfield High. [3]

Escalante actually 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 remained in the course at the end of the year and of the five, only two passed the AP Calculus exam.[4]

Legacy

In December 2011, Stand and Deliver was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.[5] The Registry said the film was "one of the most popular of a new wave of narrative feature films produced in the 1980s by Latino filmmakers" and that it "celebrates in a direct, approachable, and impactful way, values of self-betterment through hard work and power through knowledge."[5]

In popular culture

A part of the plot and Escalante is parodied (a Latino-American teacher named Julio Estudiante who worked with inner city students to choose math over inner-city gang violence) in the Simpsons episode "Special Edna".

The episode of South Park entitled "Eek, a Penis!" borrows heavily from the plot of Stand and Deliver, with Cartman assuming a similar role to that played by Edward James Olmos, although where in the film, the students were falsely accused of cheating, in the episode, the students actually did cheat and got away with it.[6][7]

In one episode of the seventh season of How I Met Your Mother, entitled "Field Trip", Ted takes his students on a field trip to teach them about how great being an architect is, and Barney reminds him that he can't "Stand and Deliver" his students. At the end of the episode, the movie is mentioned again when Barney says he saw it on television, and they argue about whether the actor's name is Jacob James Olmos or Edward James Olmos.

American senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was accused of plagiarizing near-verbatim portions of the plot summary from the Wikipedia article on Stand and Deliver in two speeches on immigration.[8][9][10][11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Variety film review; 17 February 1988
  2. ^ "Jay Mathews: Retest D.C. Classes That Had Dubious Exam Results in '08". Washingtonpost.com. 2009-09-14. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  3. ^ "Jay Mathews: Retest D.C. Classes That Had Dubious Exam Results in '08". Washingtonpost.com. 2009-09-14. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  4. ^ Woo, Elaine (2010-03-31). "Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to 'Stand and Deliver' - Page 3 - Los Angeles Times". Articles.latimes.com. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  5. ^ a b "2011 National Film Registry More Than a Box of Chocolates". Library of Congress. December 28, 2011. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
  6. ^ "South Park: "Eek, A Penis!"". The A.V. Club. 10 April 2008. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
  7. ^ "South Park: "Eek!, A Penis!" Review". IGN. IGN. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
  8. ^ "Remarks prepared for delivery: Sen. Rand Paul's Keynote Speech at Immigration Forum". Rand Paul. 12 June 2013. Retrieved 30 Oct 2013.
  9. ^ "Text of Rand Paul's Immigration Speech". Wall Street Journal. 19 Mar 2013. Retrieved 30 Oct 2013.
  10. ^ "Rand Paul Has Given Speeches Plagiarized From Wikipedia Before". Buzzfeed. 29 Oct 2013. Retrieved 30 Oct 2013.
  11. ^ "More Wikipedia copying in Rand Paul Speeches". The Rachel Maddow Show. 29 Oct 2013. Retrieved 30 Oct 2013.

External links

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