The creative team behind “America’s Funniest Home Videos” was struggling with a recent episode of the skein, trying to find a final piece of comic absurdity to put it over the top, and team members ...

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 ...

As the story of the acclaimed Freedom Writers unfurled on stage, it was clear this wasn’t just another keynote address. Shortly after the Rodney King riots and O.J. Simpson verdict, Erin Gruwell ...

When COVID-19 caused Long Beach schools to close, Erin Gruwell experienced a familiar discomfort. She said she was gripped by the same feeling that overtook her in 1994, when she first became a ...

FITCHBURG — Monty Tech students recently learned how a teacher from California used unconventional methods to turn lives around for students who many deemed “unteachable” and doomed to lives of ...

Kilpatrick Stockton has brought the “Freedom Writers” program to Atlanta. Last month, almost 100 Kilpatrick employees and 150 students from Booker T. Washington High School took a field trip to ...

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 ...

Another movie about a well-meaning, white-bread teacher thrust among the savages? No, not by a long shot. Although "Freedom Writers" is the latest in a long line of saint-saves-students stories, it ...

A crowd of Heritage High School students watched with rapt attention Thursday as Carlos Barragan talked about growing up in Long Beach, Calif. Speaking through video conference, Barragan told them ...

COHOES, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A well-known author spoke to a group of local ninth-graders Monday about how she changed students’ lives for the better. Erin Gruwell, the teacher who wrote “The Freedom ...

MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) - Stories of hardship and hope written by students at a South Florida high school are among several dozen that were selected to be included in a new book. “Dear Freedom ...