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Student taking test via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n
You might guess that Cedrick comes from a privileged private-school background. Nope. He’s the son of two immigrants who came to the U.S. as young adults, his mother from the Philippines and his father from El Salvador. His father never attended high school and works\u00a0in maintenance at\u00a0a\u00a0nursing home, where his mother also works as a licensed vocational nurse.<\/p>\n
Cedrick attends Lincoln High School, a public school of about 1,200 students in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, where the majority of students are low-income and 20 percent are English-language learners.<\/p>\n
Kudos to calculus teacher Anthony Yom, whose 21 AP Calculus students\u00a0taking the exam\u00a0ALL passed\u2014and 17 of them\u00a0received the highest score of 5,\u00a0indicating that a student is “extremely well qualified” for a college course in that subject.\u00a0It was the third year in a row that all of Yom\u2019s students passed the test.<\/p>\n
According to the Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Yom “treats his students like a sports team.” They even wore matching t-shirts on test day, \u201clike they\u2019re wearing jerseys to the game,\u201d Yom said.<\/p>\n Kudos to Cedrick, and extra kudos to Anthony for making a difference in these students’ lives!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seventeen-year-old Cedrick Argueta was one of only 12 students worldwide to recently\u00a0attain a perfect score on the grueling Advanced Placement Calculus exam. More than 302,000 students took the 3 1\/4 hour test last year, said to be one of the … Continue reading