Up the Down Staircase
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Park Place Production
- Keyword: high school, new york city, based on novel or book, suicide attempt, teacher, teacher student relationship, high school teacher, schoolteacher, english teacher, bad students, student threatens teacher
- Cast: Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White, Jean Stapleton, Sorrell Booke
