In 2021, at least 31 U.S. states reported rising high-school dropout rates, over twice that in the previous year. That wouldn’t be as tragic if it weren’t for the fact that graduates are likelier than ...

Educator and writer Erin Gruwell, the author of a book that inspired the academy award-winning movie, “Freedom Writers,” aims to be a catalyst for change. She will share her experiences as a teacher ...

Goose Creek High School English teacher Mahwish McIntosh recently completed a special training in Long Beach, California from highly acclaimed educator Erin Gruwell, founder and president of the ...

Goose Creek High School language arts teacher Mahwish McIntosh is among 150 teachers from across the U.S. and Canada who provided a voice for Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers.

After seeing the trailer for "Freedom Writers," about an idealistic young teacher in an inner-city school, "people might think, 'I've seen this genre before,' " says Erin Gruwell, "but I think it's ...

A group of young, international writers were treated like literary rock stars earlier this week in Long Beach. A couple of hundred people gathered outside the Hotel Maya for the book launch of “Dear ...

Tory Villamonte was a freshman in Paul Smith’s English class at Crete High School when she first learned about the Freedom Writers. The class was doing a unit on “The Freedom Writers Diary,” the 1999 ...

When the book “The Freedom Writers Diary” burst on the scene in 1999, sharing the experiences of teacher Erin Gruwell and her Wilson High School English classes, it uncovered both the pain and the ...

In this moving follow-up to 1999’s The Freedom Writers Diary, educator Gruwell takes a vivid look at the issues facing teenagers today. In 1994, Gruwell drew on the example of Anne Frank’s Holocaust ...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Students in Amy Sitton's English classes at Egyptian High School in Tamms know well the story of Erin Gruwell and her students. They've read her book. They watched Hilary Swank portray ...