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 ...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Students in Amy Sitton's English classes at Egyptian High School in Tamms know well the story of Erin Gruwell and her students. They've read her book. They watched Hilary Swank portray ...

At first, some at Lincoln Southeast High School were skeptical. Do you really think you can raise $6,000 to bring two of the original Freedom Writers to speak here? Undeterred, Paul Smith, Jodi Gehr ...

Gruwell wrote "The Freedom Writers Diary," the book that was made into a movie starring Hilary Swank. Gruwell, now president of the Freedom Writers Foundation, and motivational speaker Ken Johnson, ...