Up the Down Staircase (Audiobook)

from SeriousGrace

In the spirit of every new-to-the-business, green educator, Sylvia Barrett is no different than all the rest. Every first year teacher can claim Up the Down Staircase illustrates his or her career. When Sylvia begins her first term in New York's Calvin Coolidge high school she has nothing short o...

from BookConcierge

From the book jacket: Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school. This is the funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic teacher whose clash with school bureaucracy is a timeless lesson for students, teachers, parents - anyone conc...

from janerawoof

Humorous novel with many grains of truth--just as true today as when written 50 years. I laughed and cried. Neophyte idealistic teacher, Sylvia Barrett's first semester teaching at an inner-city NYC school, contending with the horrendous bureaucracy, paperwork, and red tape and trying to instill ...

from lycomayflower

I'm not usually a big fan of the epistolary style, but Kaufman makes it work beautifully in Up the Down Staircase. I'm always (this is my second read? third?) startled by how much I connect with Sylvia's students even though we only see them through little snippets of their writing and through Sy...

from bookchickdi

Last fall, I saw that one of the books that I loved as a high school student, Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman, was being reissued as an ebook. I can vividly remember reading the slim book, a fictionalized account of Kaufman's experiences teaching in the New York City schools system in the 19...