Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
カリーム・アブルナガ: 子どもたちが本当に通いたくなるサマースクールを
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to thinking that far ahead.
考えることがありません
where you're going to get your next meal
つぎのご飯をどうするか
どうやって工面するかです
is going to pay rent that month.
and my friends' parents
満足しているように見えました
driving taxis and working as janitors.
私が気づいたのは
want to do those things.
through my education,
学校教育の3分の2を終えており
to turn things around.
ほぼ手遅れといった状況でした
you want to be rich.
お金持ちに憧れるものですが
on government aid
to some of New York City's
ニューヨーク市でも
when I was in seventh grade,
60日以上 欠席しました
a 55 percent graduation rate,
卒業率が55%でしたが
大学に行ける学力があったのは
to raise our hands
先生にいつも言われていたよ」と
that question before."
言われたことないな
are you going to?"
行きたいんだ?』だったよ」
not to have gone to college.
ありえないでしょう
されるようになりました
その境遇から抜け出したの?」
「運が良かった」と答えていましたが
graduated from high school
of a two-year college,
as a Presidential Research Scholar
入学して初めて
the very real educational consequences
自分が通ったような学校に行くことが
on government aid
began to make complete sense to me.
それでやっと腑に落ちました
education reformers,
教育改革の最高権威たる人たち
アーン・ダンカンや
the former US Secretary of Education,
ウェンディー・コップは
of Teach For America,
public school like I had.
公立校に通ったことがないことです
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
同情的な考えで動かされているのです
these poor inner city kids,
取組みではないのです
in this environment, could say,
こう言うはずです
about how I made it out,
今の私の答えはこうです
助けを求めたことです」
or affluent household,
or a teacher will come to their rescue
助けに来てくれます
is growing up poor
that no one will help them.
まずありません
no social safety nets available.
ないも同然なのです
our public education system
of the achievement gap,
学習到達度の差
in educational attainment
学業成績において
to the summer learning loss.
夏休み中の学習喪失によるものなのです
kids forget almost three months
during the school year
spend another two months
また2ヶ月かけて
is only 10 months.
一学年でたった10ヶ月です
every single year,
毎年 失っていたら
then they couldn't regress,
こんな後戻りはしないでしょう
is poorly designed.
不十分なものです
it feels like babysitting.
子守りのようなものでした
to execute an effective summer program
学校側は準備できるわけがありません
ends the last week of June
just one week later?
たったの1週間です
to find the right people,
ふさわしい人を探して
that excites kids and teachers.
カリキュラム作りは無理です
over the summer
教育者の卵を育成する側に回る—
as teaching coaches
私たちの手で
college-educated role models
their college ambitions?
手伝ってもらったら?
メンターになってもらい
学習に対するやる気を
to invest in their education?
「研究生」として自信を持たせ
they were going to,
they want to attend
サマースクールを考え
the summer learning loss
夏の間に忘れることがないようにし
of the achievement gap?
どうでしょう?
over 4,000 low-income children,
低所得層の子ども4千名以上を手助けし
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
いくつかで実現したことです
成功しつつあります
eliminate the summer learning loss
夏に勉強で後れをとることがなくなり
読解で2ヶ月分も
in the fall three months behind,
3ヶ月遅れということはなく
アイビー・リーグの大学を
of my class from an Ivy League institution
on our public education system
学校教育制度を良くできるかもしれない」
of the calendar year,
five months of lost time
that we can unlock
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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