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“He said the kids saw the movie so many times they thought passing the test was going to be as easy as the movie made it out to be.”
--Garfield High School Principal Maria Elena Tostado, describing calculus teacher Jaime Escalante’s reaction to news that the East Los Angeles school--whose high scores on the annual Advanced Placement calculus exam were dramatized by Hollywood--had relatively disappointing results this year.
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