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Article: Letter from the editor.
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- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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Among my many guilty pleasures are movies about teachers inspiring students. No matter how bad they are, no matter how made-for-TV they might be, I'll cheer each one on until the end. One of the best is Stand and Deliver, which dramatizes the true story of Jamie Escalante, a math teacher in East Los Angeles. At the end of the movie, statistics fade in and out on a black screen, showing how the number of students passing the AP calculus exam increased each year. It's a great story, made all the more powerful because it's true.
I also love Dead Poet's Society. At the end of the movie, as the boys stand on their desks proclaiming "O Captain! my Captain!" well ... any sense of ...
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