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 ...

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 ...

“A sound as simple as a car driving by can strike fear into the heart of a Palestinian,” wrote a young woman from Gaza. “Could it be a rocket? A missile? No matter the age, these are the thoughts that ...

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 ...

Last month, I wrote about a Crete student whose essay on mental health was published in "Dear Freedom Writers," the newly released sequel to the original "Freedom Writers Diary." The student learned ...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Seven students’ stories went from the classroom to the “Dear Freedom Writer: Stories of Hardship and Hope from the Next Generation” — a book that is distributed worldwide.