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 ...

FRANKENLUST TOWNSHIP – The founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation is delivering a presentation Wednesday at 10 a.m. as part of the Delta College President's Speakers Series. Erin Gruwell, the ...

In "Freedom Writers," Hilary Swank plays a bright-eyed, enthusiastic teacher who skips into a slummy, scummy school crawling with seemingly impenetrable gangster kids. Through psychology and bizarre ...

Last year’s South Tahoe Middle School sixth-graders never thought they would get a “freedom writer” to come to their school. But they did: Manuel Scott, whose life was portrayed in the film “Freedom ...

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 ...

WATERVLIET, N.Y. – Watervliet ninth-graders joined their peers from the Cohoes, Lansingburgh and Waterford-Halfmoon school districts this week for an inspirational message shared by acclaimed educator ...