Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
Karim Abouelnaga: En sommarskola som barn faktiskt vill gå i
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to thinking that far ahead.
att tänka så långt framåt.
where you're going to get your next meal
var du får din nästa måltid
ska betala hyran för månaden.
is going to pay rent that month.
and my friends' parents
och mina vänners föräldrar
driving taxis and working as janitors.
och arbeta som vaktmästare.
want to do those things.
arbeta med sånt.
through my education,
av min utbildning bakom mig
to turn things around.
att ändra på saker.
you want to be rich.
vill du bli rik.
on government aid
med hjälp av bidrag
från en låginkomstfamilj
to some of New York City's
i New York Citys
when I was in seventh grade,
när jag gick i sjunde klass
a 55 percent graduation rate,
i min skola utexaminerades
to raise our hands
alltid bad oss räcka upp handen
that question before."
frågat mig det där."
are you going to?"
tänker du studera vid?"
not to have gone to college.
att inte fortsätta studera.
att jag hade haft tur,
graduated from high school
gick ut gymnasiet
of a two-year college,
en 2-årig utbildning,
as a Presidential Research Scholar
som Presidential Research-forskare
the very real educational consequences
det har på ens utbildning
on government aid
på statligt bidrag
began to make complete sense to me.
min brors utbildningsbana.
education reformers,
mest prisade utbildningsförnyare,
the former US Secretary of Education,
f.d. utbildningsminister,
of Teach For America,
av Teach For America,
public school like I had.
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
drivs av sympatiska motiv
these poor inner city kids,
dessa fattiga barn i stan,
in this environment, could say,
i samma miljö kunde säga:
about how I made it out,
om hur jag klarade mig
inte var rädd att be om hjälp.
or affluent household,
eller välställt hem,
or a teacher will come to their rescue
eller en lärare hjälper det,
is growing up poor
växer upp i ett fattigt hem
that no one will help them.
att ingen hjälper barnet.
no social safety nets available.
inga sociala stödnätverk till hands.
our public education system
vårt kommunala skolsystem
of the achievement gap,
av prestationsklyftan,
in educational attainment
to the summer learning loss.
mindre inlärning under sommaren.
kids forget almost three months
glömmer barnen nästan tre månader
during the school year
spend another two months
två extra månader
is only 10 months.
av inlärning varje år,
every single year,
then they couldn't regress,
kan de inte glömma materialet,
is poorly designed.
är dåligt uppbyggd.
it feels like babysitting.
som barnvakter.
to execute an effective summer program
förverkligar en effektiv sommarskola
ends the last week of June
sista veckan i juni
just one week later?
endast en vecka senare?
to find the right people,
att hitta de rätta lärarna,
that excites kids and teachers.
som inspirerar både barn och lärare.
over the summer
en sommarskola
as teaching coaches
att som mentorer
college-educated role models
för högt utbildade förebilder
their college ambitions?
sina högskoleambitioner?
för ambitiösa barn
för yngre skolkamrater
to invest in their education?
att satsa på sin utbildning?
uppmuntrade alla barn
they were going to,
de vill studera vid,
they want to attend
som de vill gå i
the summer learning loss
inlärningsbortfallet
of the achievement gap?
av prestationsklyftan?
over 4,000 low-income children,
att ha hjälpt över 4 000 låginkomstbarn,
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
mest missgynnade områden.
eliminate the summer learning loss
sommarens inlärningsbortfall
in the fall three months behind,
tre månader på efterkälke
of my class from an Ivy League institution
i klassen vid ett Ivy League-universitet
on our public education system
vårt kommunala skolsystem
of the calendar year,
två månader av kalenderåret,
five months of lost time
fem månader av förlorad tid
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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