![]() So she rebooted her entire curriculum, using treasured books such as Anne Frank’s diary as her guide to combat intolerance and misunderstanding. She was met by uncomprehending looks-none of her students had heard of one of the defining moments of the twentieth century. ![]() She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust. In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. ![]() Now a public television documentary, Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart
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