The 150 "unteachable" students who Erin Gruwell taught in Room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach aren't teens fighting violence, racism, poverty and gangs anymore. They're adults now.

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.

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 ...

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 ...