ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Karim Abouelnaga - Education entrepreneur
Karim 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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Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend

Karim Abouelnaga: Um curso de verão que os alunos realmente querem frequentar

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Durante as férias de verão, jovens de bairros pobres nos EUA se esquecem do equivalente a quase três meses do conteúdo que aprenderam durante o ano letivo. O empresário educacional e Bolsista TED Karim Abouelnaga quer reverter essa perda de aprendizado, transformando a "recessão do verão" em uma oportunidade para melhorar e crescer rumo a um futuro melhor.
- Education entrepreneur
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00:13
Getting a college education
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Obter ensino superior
é um investimento de 20 anos.
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is a 20-year investment.
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When you're growing up poor,
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Quando crescemos pobres,
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you're not accustomed
to thinking that far ahead.
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não estamos acostumados
a pensar tão à frente.
00:23
Instead, you're thinking about
where you're going to get your next meal
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Pensamos em como vamos
conseguir a próxima refeição
e como nossa família
vai pagar o aluguel naquele mês.
00:26
and how your family
is going to pay rent that month.
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00:29
Besides, my parents
and my friends' parents
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Além disso, meus pais
e os pais dos meus amigos
00:32
seemed to be doing just fine
driving taxis and working as janitors.
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pareciam ir bem dirigindo táxis
e trabalhando como zeladores.
00:36
It wasn't until I was a teenager
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Somente na adolescência me dei conta
00:38
when I realized I didn't
want to do those things.
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de que não queria fazer essas coisas.
00:42
By then, I was two-thirds of the way
through my education,
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Até então, já tinha percorrido
dois terços do caminho para minha educação
00:45
and it was almost too late
to turn things around.
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e já era quase tarde demais para mudar.
00:49
When you grow up poor,
you want to be rich.
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Quando crescemos pobres,
queremos ser ricos.
00:52
I was no different.
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Eu não era diferente.
00:54
I'm the second-oldest of seven,
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Sou o segundo filho de sete,
e fomos criados pela nossa mãe,
00:56
and was raised by a single mother
on government aid
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com auxílio do governo,
no Queens, Nova York.
00:58
in Queens, New York.
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01:00
By virtue of growing up low-income,
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Por conta da nossa baixa renda,
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my siblings and I went
to some of New York City's
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meus irmãos e eu frequentamos as escolas
públicas mais precárias de Nova York.
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most struggling public schools.
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I had over 60 absences
when I was in seventh grade,
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Tive mais de 60 faltas na sétima série,
01:11
because I didn't feel like going to class.
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porque não tinha vontade de ir à aula.
01:13
My high school had
a 55 percent graduation rate,
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Minha escola no ensino médio
tinha taxa de 55% de formandos
01:16
and even worse,
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e, ainda pior,
01:18
only 20 percent of the kids graduating
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apenas 20% dos jovens que se formavam
01:20
were college-ready.
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estavam preparados para a universidade.
01:22
When I actually did make it to college,
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Quando finalmente cheguei à universidade,
01:25
I told my friend Brennan
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disse ao meu amigo Brennan
01:26
how our teachers would always ask us
to raise our hands
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que os professores pediam
que levantássemos as mãos
"se" fôssemos para a faculdade.
01:30
if we were going to college.
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01:33
I was taken aback when Brennan said,
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Fiquei espantado quando ele disse:
01:35
"Karim, I've never been asked
that question before."
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"Karim, nunca me fizeram
essa pergunta antes.
01:38
It was always, "What college
are you going to?"
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Sempre perguntavam:
'Para qual faculdade vocês vão?'"
01:41
Just the way that question is phrased
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O simples modo
como a pergunta é formulada
01:43
made it unacceptable for him
not to have gone to college.
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tornava inaceitável que ele
não tivesse ido para a faculdade.
01:47
Nowadays I get asked a different question.
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Hoje me fazem uma pergunta diferente:
01:50
"How were you able to make it out?"
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"Como você conseguiu se formar?"
01:53
For years I said I was lucky,
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Durante anos, dizia que tive sorte.
01:57
but it's not just luck.
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Mas não foi apenas sorte.
01:59
When my older brother and I
graduated from high school
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Quando meu irmão mais velho e eu
nos formamos juntos no ensino médio
02:01
at the very same time
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e ele, depois, desistiu de um curso
de dois anos na faculdade,
02:03
and he later dropped out
of a two-year college,
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02:05
I wanted to understand why he dropped out
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eu queria entender por que ele desistiu
e eu continuei estudando.
02:07
and I kept studying.
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02:10
It wasn't until I got to Cornell
as a Presidential Research Scholar
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Somente quando entrei na Cornell como
membro do Presidential Research Scholars
02:13
that I started to learn about
the very real educational consequences
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comecei a entender sobre as reais
consequências na educação
02:17
of being raised by a single mother
on government aid
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de quem é criado apenas pela mãe
com auxílio do governo
02:20
and attending the schools that I did.
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e frequentando as escolas que frequentei.
02:22
That's when my older brother's trajectory
began to make complete sense to me.
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Foi então que a trajetória do meu irmão
passou a fazer sentido para mim.
02:28
I also learned that our most admirable
education reformers,
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Também descobri que nossos mais notáveis
reformadores da educação,
02:31
people like Arne Duncan,
the former US Secretary of Education,
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pessoas como Arne Duncan,
ex-Secretário da Educação dos EUA,
02:35
or Wendy Kopp, the founder
of Teach For America,
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ou Wendy Kopp, fundadora
da Teach for America,
02:38
had never attended an inner city
public school like I had.
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nunca frequentaram uma escola
pública municipal como eu.
02:41
So much of our education reform
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
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Grande parte da nossa reforma na educação
é conduzida por uma abordagem solidária,
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where people are saying,
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em que as pessoas dizem:
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"Let's go and help
these poor inner city kids,
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"Vamos ajudar esses pobres
jovens da periferia,
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or these poor black and Latino kids,"
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ou esses pobres jovens negros e latinos",
02:52
instead of an empathetic approach,
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em vez de uma abordagem empática,
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where someone like me, who had grown up
in this environment, could say,
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em que alguém como eu, que cresceu
nesse ambiente, pudesse dizer:
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"I know the adversities that you're facing
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"Eu conheço as adversidades
que vocês enfrentam
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and I want to help you overcome them."
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e quero ajudá-los a superá-las".
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Today when I get questions
about how I made it out,
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Hoje, quando me perguntam
sobre como consegui me formar,
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I share that one of the biggest reasons
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digo que uma das principais razões
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is that I wasn't ashamed to ask for help.
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foi que eu não sentia
vergonha em pedir ajuda.
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In a typical middle class
or affluent household,
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Em uma típica família
de classe média ou alta,
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if a kid is struggling,
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se o jovem tem dificuldades,
03:16
there's a good chance that a parent
or a teacher will come to their rescue
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é bem provável que os pais
ou um professor o socorram,
03:20
even if they don't ask for help.
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mesmo que ele não peça ajuda.
03:22
However, if that same kid
is growing up poor
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No entanto, se o jovem cresce pobre,
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and doesn't ask for help,
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e não pede ajuda,
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there's a good chance
that no one will help them.
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é bem provável que ninguém o ajude.
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There are virtually
no social safety nets available.
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Praticamente não há redes
de segurança sociais disponíveis.
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So seven years ago,
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Então, sete anos atrás,
03:34
I started to reform
our public education system
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comecei a reformar o sistema
de educação pública
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shaped by my firsthand perspective.
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baseado em minha própria perspectiva.
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And I started with summer school.
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E comecei com o curso de verão.
03:43
Research tells us that two-thirds
of the achievement gap,
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Pesquisas mostram que dois terços
da lacuna no aprendizado,
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which is the disparity
in educational attainment
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que é a diferença no rendimento escolar
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between rich kids and poor kids
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entre jovens ricos e pobres,
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or black kids and white kids,
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ou entre jovens negros e brancos,
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could be directly attributed
to the summer learning loss.
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podem ser diretamente atribuídos à perda
de aprendizado nas férias de verão.
03:57
In low-income neighborhoods,
kids forget almost three months
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Em bairros pobres, os jovens
esquecem o equivalente a três meses
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of what they learned
during the school year
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do que aprenderam no ano letivo
04:02
over the summer.
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durante o verão.
04:03
They return to school in the fall,
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Voltam às aulas no outono,
e os professores passam mais dois meses
revisando o material antigo.
04:05
and their teachers
spend another two months
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04:07
reteaching them old material.
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São cinco meses.
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That's five months.
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04:10
The school year in the United States
is only 10 months.
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O ano letivo nos EUA dura dez meses.
Se os alunos perdem cinco meses todo ano,
04:13
If kids lose five months of learning
every single year,
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é metade da educação deles.
04:15
that's half of their education.
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Half.
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Metade.
04:20
If kids were in school over the summer,
then they couldn't regress,
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Se eles estivessem na escola
durante o verão, não iriam retroceder.
04:24
but traditional summer school
is poorly designed.
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Mas os cursos de verão
tradicionais são mal planejados:
04:26
For kids it feels like punishment,
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para os alunos, parece punição
04:29
and for teachers
it feels like babysitting.
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e, para os professores,
parece que estão sendo babás.
04:32
But how can we expect principals
to execute an effective summer program
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Mas como esperar que os diretores
executem programas de férias eficientes
04:36
when the school year
ends the last week of June
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se o ano letivo termina
na última semana de junho
04:38
and then summer school starts
just one week later?
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e o curso de verão
começa uma semana depois?
04:41
There just isn't enough time
to find the right people,
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Não dá tempo de encontrar as pessoas
certas, organizar a logística
04:44
sort out the logistics,
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e desenvolver um programa
que anime alunos e professores.
04:45
and design an engaging curriculum
that excites kids and teachers.
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04:51
But what if we created a program
over the summer
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E se criássemos um programa
durante o verão
04:55
that empowered teachers
as teaching coaches
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que capacitasse os professores
a serem monitores
04:59
to develop aspiring educators?
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para o desenvolvimento
de novos educadores?
05:02
What if we empowered
college-educated role models
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E se capacitássemos pessoas
com educação superior
05:05
as teaching fellows
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como colegas de ensino
05:07
to help kids realize
their college ambitions?
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para ajudar os jovens
a alcançarem suas metas?
05:10
What if empowered high-achieving kids
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E se capacitássemos jovens de grande êxito
05:12
as mentors to tutor their younger peers
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como orientadores para ensinar
seus colegas mais novos
05:15
and inspire them
to invest in their education?
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e inspirá-los a investir
na própria educação?
05:19
What if we empowered all kids as scholars,
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E se capacitássemos todos
os alunos como acadêmicos,
05:23
asked them what colleges
they were going to,
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perguntando que faculdades
querem frequentar,
05:26
designed a summer school
they want to attend
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planejando um curso de verão
que eles querem frequentar,
05:30
to completely eliminate
the summer learning loss
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para eliminar totalmente
a perda das férias
05:32
and close two-thirds
of the achievement gap?
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e fechar dois terços
da lacuna no aprendizado?
05:37
By this summer, my team will have served
over 4,000 low-income children,
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Até o próximo verão, minha equipe terá
atendido mais de 4 mil crianças pobres,
05:41
trained over 300 aspiring teachers
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treinado mais de 300
professores aspirantes
05:44
and created more than 1,000 seasonal jobs
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e criado mais de mil empregos sazonais
05:47
across some of New York City's
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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em alguns dos bairros
mais desfavorecidos de Nova York.
05:51
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
05:56
And our kids are succeeding.
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E nossos jovens estão obtendo sucesso.
05:59
Two years of independent evaluations
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Dois anos de avaliações independentes
mostram que os jovens eliminaram
a perda de aprendizado nas férias
06:01
tell us that our kids
eliminate the summer learning loss
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06:04
and make growth of one month in math
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e têm melhora de um mês em matemática
06:06
and two months in reading.
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e dois meses em leitura.
06:08
So instead of returning to school
in the fall three months behind,
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Em vez de voltar às aulas no outono
com três meses de atraso,
06:11
they now go back four months ahead in math
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agora eles voltam quatro meses
adiantados em matemática
06:15
and five months ahead in reading.
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e cinco meses adiantados em leitura.
06:17
(Applause)
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06:24
Ten years ago, if you would have told me
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Dez anos atrás, se me dissessem
que eu me formaria
06:26
that I'd graduate in the top 10 percent
of my class from an Ivy League institution
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entre os melhores da classe
em uma universidade da Ivy League
06:30
and have an opportunity to make a dent
on our public education system
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e teria a oportunidade de realizar mudança
no nosso sistema de educação pública
06:34
just by tackling two months
of the calendar year,
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apenas corrigindo dois meses
do calendário escolar,
06:38
I would have said,
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eu teria dito:
06:40
"Nah. No way."
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"Não, de jeito nenhum".
06:43
What's even more exciting
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O que é mais animador
06:45
is that if we can prevent
five months of lost time
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é que, se conseguimos evitar
cinco meses de tempo perdido
06:48
just by redesigning two months,
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apenas replanejando dois meses,
06:51
imagine the possibilities
that we can unlock
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imaginem as possibilidades
que poderemos descobrir
06:54
by tackling the rest of the calendar year.
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corrigindo o resto do calendário escolar.
06:58
Thank you.
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Obrigado.
06:59
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
Translated by Sarah Tambur
Reviewed by Maricene Crus

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Karim Abouelnaga - Education entrepreneur
Karim 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.

More profile about the speaker
Karim Abouelnaga | Speaker | TED.com

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