Bel Kaufman lets her characters speak for themselves through memos, letters, directives from the principal, comments by students, notes between teachers, and papers from desk drawers and wastebaskets, evoking a vivid picture of teachers fighting the good fight against all that stands in the way of good teaching. Up the Down Staircase 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 concerned about public education. Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner workings of a metropolitan high school. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prizewinning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States its very title has become part of the American idiom. |a Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. |a 1 online resource (8 audio files) : |b digital |a Ashland : |b Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC, |c 2014.
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