' Up the Down Staircase is even more pertinent, useful, charming, important, and utterly adorable than it was twenty-five years ago.Instead, very much to my surprise, the Barnes & Noble clerk informed me that “Up the Down Staircase” was out of print. should be read by anyone interested in children or education.' * The New York Times * 'Easily the most popular novel about U.S. 'he seminal book on the hardships and joys of teaching.' - Joseph Berger * The New York Times * American teacher's life that we are likely to have for a long time.' * Life * 'The most excellent and useful portrait of a. A stunningly accurate portrait of life in an urban school.' - Margalit Fox * The New York Times * 'Shot through with despair and hopefulness, violence and levity, bureaucratic inanity and a blizzard of official memorandums so mind-bendingly illogical as to seem almost Kafkaesque. he most enduring account we have of teachers' lives - not naive, not exculpatory, but empathetic and aware.' - Samuel G.

' fully grasped the thankless position of the teachers left to impart knowledge and instil citizenship in the face of awesome obstacles. Publisher: Scribe Publications ISBN: 9781912854615 Number of pages: 384 Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm MEDIA REVIEWS It is poignant, devastating, laugh-out-loud funny, and - in our current moment of debate around the future of education - more relevant than ever. Up the Down Staircase stands as the seminal novel of a beleaguered public school system that is redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognised. Her bumpy yet ultimately rewarding journey is depicted through an extraordinary collection of correspondence: sternly worded yet nonsensical administrative memos, furtive notes of wisdom from teacher to teacher, 'polio consent slips', and student homework assignments that unwittingly speak from the heart. Instead she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City's Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Our reissue of Bel Kaufman's bestselling 1964 novel timelessly depicts the shambolic joys and myriad frustrations of a young teacher.

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