A follow up to my previous post on unions.
Teachers Unions: Don’t Work Too Hard!
John Stossel
Jaime Escalante — the math teacher who became famous for teaching even the poorest kids calculus in a failing Los Angeles school — died this week at age 78. His story shows not just what can be accomplished by great teachers, but also what damage unions can do.
Escalante got national attention when 14 out of 15 of his students at a low-ranking Los Angeles school passed the Advanced Placement Calculus exam. By 1987, 73 students from the school passed the AP calculus exam — more than all but six other schools in the country. After a movie about his success, called “Stand and Deliver”, was released in 1988, Escalante became an icon for showing that even the most disadvantaged kids could learn complex subjects if given the right instruction.
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