by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell “At 16, I’ve probably witnessed more dead bodies than a mortician,” says a Woodrow Wilson High School student, before matter-of-factly describing a ...

Erin Gruwell, the inspiration behind the movie "Freedom Writers" was the guest speaker ... we attract are teachers who teach students who struggle with learning disabilities and gang violence.

The passionate and idealistic Erin attempts to revive the students' will to study by asking each of them to keep a diary. Swank's performance and the depictions of each student's struggle turns an ...

Erin Gruwell, whose story is told in Richard LaGravenese’s movie “Freedom Writers,” is a quiet American hero. An idealistic young teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif., ...

“Freedom Writers” proffers its platitudes invitingly even as its many exaggerations stick in your craw. The movie is based on the life of Erin Gruwell, a short- term Long Beach high school ...

Teacher Jenni Currie didn't know when she took her students at Vigor High School on a field trip to see the movie "Freedom Writers" in 2007 ... true story of teacher Erin Gruwell, who taught ...

‘Freedom Writers’ is the nauseatingly earnest yet thoroughly winning account of real-life maverick high-school teacher Erin Gruwell (Hillary Swank), whose ceaseless struggle to guide her ...

In this case, because the story is based on the real-life Erin Gruwell and her real-life class. More crucially, “Freedom Writers,” initially at least, paints such a hopeless picture of ...

By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press This review was written for the theatrical release of “Freedom Writers ... directed by Richard LaGravenese, Erin Gruwell (Swank) comes to Wilson ...

Erin Gruwell is the founder of the Freedom Writers Foundation and the editor of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them ...