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media type="custom" key="7109051" align="center" ** //Up The Down Stair Case// by: Bel Kaufman ** **﻿ Kaufman, Bel. //Up The Down Stair Case//. New York: HarperCollins Publisher, 1964. **   ** Su﻿mmary: **  //Up The Down Stair Case// takes place in the halls of Coolidge High School in New York City. It is a story of a young teacher’s first year teaching at a high school and her dreams to inspire and instruct children. She is shocked when her students are not all eager to learn everything she has to teach them. She faces heartbreaking situations and she experience love. She learns what being a teacher is all about and she watches her students grow from defiant to excited learners. This is a great book about what teaching really is like. It does not idealize teaching at all. It shows you the struggles and hardships teachers deal with daily. If your wanting to be a teacher and would like a sneak peak into what teaching is going to be like, then I highly recommend this book to you. **Author Cyber Hunt:**


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