Up the Down Staircase

Up the Down Staircase

Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York Cityâ€™s Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Her bumpy yet ultimately rewarding journey is narrated through an extraordinary collection of correspondenceâ€”sternly worded yet nonsensical administrative memos, furtive notes of wisdom from teacher to teacher, â€œpolio consent slips,â€ and student homework assignments that unwittingly speak from the heart. An instant bestseller when it was first published in 1964, Up the Down Staircase remains as poignant, devastating, laugh-out-loud funny, and relevant today as ever. It timelessly depicts a beleaguered public school system redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0525565655_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2019-04-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780525565659

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