Stand and Deliver

He had already scored movies including The Great Texas Dynamite Chase and Corvette Summer with Mark Hamill.

He would later become much better known for things like The Last Starfighter, Stand and Deliver, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, and his work on Cheers.

Now, there had been talk about using the work of Blondie in this movie.

Dennis Christopher was friends with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein and thought their song Europa would work well as a theme.

I just won't send rockets into outer space.

[laughs] No, Stand and Deliver is Jaime Escalante.

Yeah.

We'll go, uh- First time I saw this was Ms. Mendoza showed it to us in Spanish class, Selena, but she also showed us La Bamba.

Let's hear more of that, right? This is very Ray Feskie.

This is very Stand and Deliver.

This is what, you know, this is straight out of, like, twenty-five years ago KIPP, right? Students rise to the level of our expectations, right? I think that's Jaime Escalante, right? From Stand and Deliver.

They rise to the level of our expectations.

The teacher's expectations, the principal's expectations, the superintendent, the mayor, the city council, and all that.

If we didn't, wouldn't have discipline, we would never b- to be able to deliver, right? Anything.

So I really love the movie Stand and Deliver.

Yeah.

The discipline of that, uh, teacher that for two and a half years was able to be consistent and disciplined in creating possibility for his students that didn't, uh, imagine to pass calculus and teachers and everybody else.

That's really sad.

Um, we're gonna get into your, your, your, your program of micro-progressions.

Before we get into that, though, I wanna talk about the recent, this year, earlier this year, a movie was released, a short documentary called Prisoner No More, and that was done by your good friend Tim Ferriss, the well-known podcaster and businessman and thought leader, and also bestselling author, uh, about your five-year coaching journey with, um, Taejin Park, the young man who had cerebral palsy, autism, among other things.

It was a very moving documentary.

What was this storied ancient center of learning called? Question 3.

At East L.A.'s Garfield High in the 1980s, a Bolivian-born math teacher transformed expectations by guiding low-income students to excel on the AP Calculus exam, an achievement dramatized in the film Stand and Deliver.

Who was this remarkable educator? Question 4.

Name the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned separate but equal in public education, ruling that segregated schools violate the Equal Protection Clause and reshaping classrooms across America.

A new Nalanda University opened in the 21st century to honor its legacy.

Question 3.

Who was the Garfield High math teacher behind Stand and Deliver? Answer.

Jaime Escalante.

That's another movie that came on my fucking thing.

It's the entire, um, lineup of what's-his-face, American Me, um, Stand and Deliver.

Yeah.

And-

So I would be kind of interested to see a slightly less sentimental take on a on that kind of trope.

Another one that might have been the next one I picked if we were like just doing what are like the 80s and 90s ones that are like typically uplifting in the end is Stand and Deliver.

Have you seen that one, Brian? Is that the one with Edward James Olmos? Yes.

I did see that one and I thought it

Yeah.

Like, you have Lean on Me, and then after this you have what? Stand and Deliver?

Yeah.

Yeah, that came out afterwards.

Yes.

Edward James Olmos on Stand and Deliver.

Jeff Bridges on Starman.

Coleman Domingo and Rustin.