Author: Mike Kersjes
Translator: Hye-jin Cho
Publisher: Hong-ik
Hardcover | 380 pages | 207*142mm
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About This Book
A Special Education Teacher, His Class, and Their Inspiring Journey Through
U.S. Space Camp
Besides being a football coach at his Michigan High School, Mike Kersjes taught
special education classes, dealing with children whose disabilities included
Tourette syndrome, Downs Syndrome, dyslexia, eating disorders and a variety of
emotional problems.
One autumn Kersjes got the outlandish idea that his students would benefit from
going to Space Camp, where, in conjunction with NASA, high school students
compete in a variety of activities similar to those experienced by astronauts in
training for space shuttle missions. There was only one problem: this program
had been specifically designed for gifted and talented students, the best and
the brightest from America's most privileged high schools.
Kersjes believed that, given a chance, his kids could do as well as anybody, and
with remarkable persistence broke down one barrier after another, from his own
principal's office to the inner sanctum of NASA, until Space Camp opened its
doors, on an experimental basis, to special ed students. After nine months of
rigorous preparation, during which the class molded itself into a working team,
they arrived at Space Camp, where they turned in a performance so startling, so
surprising, that it will leave the reader breathless. A truly triumphant story
of the power of the human spirit.
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