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A Crisis for Catholics; A Loss for Education
Jaime Escalante put LAUSD's Garfield High School on the world's educational map and proved that the children of poorly educated immigrants could make it to Harvard. We look at the legacy of a teaching giant who died of cancer yesterday. On our rebroadcast of To the Point, the scandal of sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests has exploded in Europe. Even the Vatican says that the moral authority of the church is at stake.
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenTwenty-five years ago, LA's Garfield High School was turning the children of poor Latino immigrants into college-educated engineers, lawyers, doctors and corporate executives, thanks to Jaime Escalante, who died yesterday at the age of 79. Can his teaching strategies be replicated or was he one of a kind? On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, the scandal of sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests has exploded in Europe. Even the Vatican says that the moral authority of the church is at stake. Lay Catholics are asking the Pope himself to reveal what he knew, when he knew it and how he responded.
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Revelations of pedophilia by priests and cover-ups by Roman Catholic authorities began in the US in 1985.
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In 1988, the film Stand and Deliver made a celebrity out of a Bolivian-born calculus teacher at LA's Garfield High School. Edward James Olmos played the starring role of Jaime Escalante, who died yesterday of cancer at the age of 79.
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