Its honorary chairman, and one of its most effective spokesmen, is California's best-known Latino teacher, Jaime Escalante, whose struggle to teach calculus to barrio kids in East Los Angeles has been celebrated in a film.

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Or, in the case of the late Jaime Escalante, since his skill at teaching calculus proved difficult to transfer to others, in the future the Escalantes of tomorrow will teach kids around the world who will get their instruction from Apple Inc.

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