Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
كريم أبوالنجا: أطفال المدارس الصيفية يريدون فعلاً ارتيادها
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to thinking that far ahead.
where you're going to get your next meal
is going to pay rent that month.
and my friends' parents
driving taxis and working as janitors.
والعمل كبوابين.
want to do those things.
هذه المهن.
through my education,
شوطًا طويلًا في مسيرة تعليمي،
to turn things around.
you want to be rich.
on government aid
to some of New York City's
when I was in seventh grade,
عندما كنت في الصف السابع،
a 55 percent graduation rate,
على 55 بالمئة من معدل التخرج،
to raise our hands
رفع أيدينا
that question before."
are you going to?"
الجامعة التي ستذهب إليها؟"
not to have gone to college.
ألا يذهب إلى الجامعة.
graduated from high school
of a two-year college,
في جامعة بعد سنتين،
as a Presidential Research Scholar
بصفتي عالم بحث رئاسي
the very real educational consequences
on government aid
بفضل معونة حكومية
began to make complete sense to me.
يبدو منطقيًا بالكامل لي.
education reformers,
في مجال التعليم،
the former US Secretary of Education,
وزير التربية والتعليم السابق،
of Teach For America,
"تعليم لأجل أمريكا"،
public school like I had.
بداخل المدينة مثلما فعلتُ.
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
تأتي من خلال منهج تعاطفي،
these poor inner city kids,
الفقراء في داخل المدينة،
in this environment, could say,
تربى في ظل هذه البيئة،
about how I made it out,
قيامي بذلك،
or affluent household,
or a teacher will come to their rescue
أب أو مدرس بإنقاذه
is growing up poor
that no one will help them.
no social safety nets available.
ضمان اجتماعي متاحة.
our public education system
of the achievement gap,
الموجودة في الإنجازات
in educational attainment
to the summer learning loss.
بغياب فرصة التعلم خلال الصيف.
kids forget almost three months
ينسى الأطفال كل ما درسوه
during the school year
spend another two months
is only 10 months.
في الولايات المتّحدة.
every single year,
then they couldn't regress,
فإنهم لن يتراجعوا،
is poorly designed.
ضعيفة التصميم.
it feels like babysitting.
to execute an effective summer program
تنفيذ برنامج صيفي فعال
ends the last week of June
الأسبوع الأخير من يونيو
just one week later?
بعد أسبوع واحد فقط؟
to find the right people,
للعثور على الأشخاص المناسبين،
that excites kids and teachers.
يحفّزالأطفال والمعلمين.
over the summer
خلال الصيف
as teaching coaches
college-educated role models
نموذج تعليمي جامعي
their college ambitions?
طموحاتهم الجامعيّة؟
العالي
تعليم أقرانهم الأصغر سناً
to invest in their education?
للاستثمار في تعليمهم؟
they were going to,
يريدون ارتيادها،
they want to attend
يريدون الذهاب إليها
the summer learning loss
عن مشكل فقدان التعلم الصيفي
of the achievement gap?
الفجوة الموجودة في الإنجاز؟
over 4,000 low-income children,
لأكثر من 4000 طفل من ذوي الدخل المحدود،
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
في مدينة نيويورك.
eliminate the summer learning loss
التعلم الصيفي
في الرياضيات لمدة شهر
in the fall three months behind,
في الخريف متأخّرين بثلاثة أشهر،
بأربعة أشهر
of my class from an Ivy League institution
من صفي من معهد رابطة اللبلاب
on our public education system
في نظامنا التعليمي العام
of the calendar year,
من السنة التقويمية،
five months of lost time
خمسة أشهر
that we can unlock
التي يمكننا الحصول عليها.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Karim Abouelnaga - Education entrepreneurKarim Abouelnaga is working to provide kids with access to high-quality academic summer programming.
Why you should listen
Karim Abouelnaga wants to eliminate summer learning loss in kids and give them a fair chance at realizing their life ambitions. After experiencing the struggle to succeed in under-resourced urban public schools, he was lucky enough to benefit from nonprofits that provided him with great mentors, receiving over $300,000 in scholarships to make his college education possible. Abouelnaga is the founder and CEO of the benefit corporation Practice Makes Perfect, a full-service summer school operator that uses a "near-peer" learning model to drive academic outcomes for thousands of low-income children.
Abouelnaga is a regular contributor for Entrepreneur and Forbes, a co-founder of Gentlemen Ventures, a TED Fellow, Global Shaper and Echoing Green Fellow. He was named to Forbes' 30 under 30 in Education. In 2016 Richtopia ranked him in the top five of most influential entrepreneurs in the world under 25. Abouelnaga graduated from Cornell University with a degree in hotel administration in 2013.
Reach Karim here: karimted@practicemakesperfect.org.
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