LouAnne Johnson
LouAnne Johnson is an American writer, teacher and former United States Marine. She is best known for the book My Posse Don't Do Homework, which was adapted as the film Dangerous Minds in 1995.
Johnson grew up in Youngsville, Pennsylvania. After high school she enrolled at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, but dropped out after a few weeks and enlisted in the Navy, serving at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. She wrote about her experience of the service in her 1986 book Making Waves: A Woman in This Man's Navy. She later transferred to the U.S. Marine Corps. On leaving the Marines she gained a masters degree in teaching English and, in 1989, went to teach at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California. [1]
Bibliography
- Making Waves (1986)
- My Posse Don’t Do Homework (1992), renamed Dangerous Minds in 1996
- The Girls in the Back of the Class (1996)
- School Is Not a Four-Letter Word (1997)
- Two Parts Textbook, One Part Love (1998)
- Queen of Education (2004)
- Teaching Outside the Box (2005)
- Muchacho (2009)
See also
- Ken Carter, education activist and former high school basketball coach portrayed in the 2005 film, Coach Carter
- Joe Louis Clark, high school principal portrayed in Lean on Me (film)
- Ron Clark (teacher), portrayed in the 2006 film, The Ron Clark Story
- Pierre Dulaine, dancer and dance educator, filmatized in Take the Lead
- Jaime Escalante, high school teacher portrayed in the 1988 film, Stand and Deliver
- Marilyn Gambrell, parole officer-turned high school teacher portrayed in the 2005 Lifetime movie, Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story
- Erin Gruwell, high school teacher portrayed in the film, The Freedom Writers
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