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Heads of the Class: 24 Cherished TV/Movie Teachers

Heads of the Class: 24 Cherished TV/Movie Teachers

As a nation's children head back to school, we look at some educators -- like Dumbledore, Yoda, and Indiana Jones -- that changed our pop-culture lives for the better

By EW Staff

Updated August 29, 2008 at 10:00 PM EDT

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50. STAND AND DELIVER (1988) SUBJECT: Jaime Escalante

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Escalante taught the poor Latino kids that the L.A. school system had given up on, and transformed them into calculus whizzes. Whether negotiating with gangbangers or injecting humor and entertainment into his classroom, Edward James Olmos' Escalante does what he has to do to connect with his students. —Jeff Labrecque

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