Response to Futures with Jaime Escalante

“FUTURES exemplifies the best in school television—an extremely high quality production carefully designed to appeal to the student audience.”
Sandy Welch, Executive Vice President
PBS Learning Services

“FUTURES is the single best-selling video in education that PBS has distributed in its quarter-century history.”
Jon Cecil, PBS Video

“I ordered the FUTURES video series and made it available for check-out to my high-school teachers…The tapes were on a waiting list for check out for most of the year.”
Dr. Mary McClendon, Supervisor of Mathematics, Sarasota County School Board

“FUTURES is a beautifully crafted series that will have far reaching impact on our Nation’s youth…you have reached millions of children, sending them a message of hope.”
James D. Watkins, Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired), former Secretary of Energy

“Today it is widely recognized that graduates of American high schools have a standard of mathematics that is alarmingly below that of students from other industrialized and some developing countries…Having viewed your video presentation FUTURES I can say that it is the first effective work that I have encountered that addresses this most critical national problem.”
Amar G. Bose, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, Founder, BOSE Corporation

“Happy Hill Farm is a certified residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children. The academic background of these children is usually dismal. I taped the FUTURES program and decided to use it during the week in which we give our yearly standardized achievement tests…The results were amazing…I never thought I’d see my students reluctant to leave math.”
Mae Cullers

“I teach below average ability students—who are not there for lack of ability, but a lack of direction or poor work habits…FUTURES is an excellent source of job information, and also stresses reading and writing and communication skills…It’s the best thing that’s come my way yet.”
9^th grade math teacher, North Sutton, New Hampshire

“Today’s students, who are regularly bombarded by stimulating electronic images, really need to see the relationship between the work they’re asked to do in school and the work-world they’re preparing to enter…the FUTURES series will show African American, Hispanic and American Indian students that there is a place for them in the technical workforce.”
Ronni Denes, Vice President, Communications, National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering

“Your FUTURES online project couldn’t come too soon…We’ve been showing FUTURES episodes at our annual career fairs ever since the first episodes were released and I’ve seen first had what happens when young people discover the kinds of jobs they could get if they had math skills…As the nation’s largest organization devoted to helping bring Hispanic young people into careers in science, we will work with you to help teachers throughout the country discover this resource and put it to work in their classrooms.”
Ray Mellado, Chair, Hispanic Engineer