Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
Karim Abouelnaga: Çocukları gerçekten katılmak istedikleri bir yaz okulu
Karim Abouelnaga is working to provide kids with access to high-quality academic summer programming. Full bio
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to thinking that far ahead.
where you're going to get your next meal
nerede yiyeceğini
is going to pay rent that month.
ödeyeceğini düşünüyorsun.
and my friends' parents
ve arkadaşlarımın aileleri
driving taxis and working as janitors.
olarak çalışıyor gibi görünürdü.
want to do those things.
farkına varmamıştım.
through my education,
üçte ikisini tamamlamıştım
to turn things around.
you want to be rich.
on government aid
to some of New York City's
New York şehrinin karışık
when I was in seventh grade,
üzerinde devamsızlığım vardı
a 55 percent graduation rate,
to raise our hands
olsaydık öğretmenlerimizin
isteyeceğini söyledim.
hiç sormadım." dediğinde
that question before."
are you going to?"
not to have gone to college.
olmasını kabul edilemez yaptı.
graduated from high school
of a two-year college,
as a Presidential Research Scholar
Başkanı olarak gelene kadar
the very real educational consequences
tarafından yetiştirilmenin
on government aid
began to make complete sense to me.
bir anlam ifade ettiği zamandı.
education reformers,
sekreteri Arne Duncan,
the former US Secretary of Education,
kurucusu Wendy Kopp gibi
önceden benim katıldığım gibi
of Teach For America,
public school like I had.
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
"Karşılaştığın olumsuzlukları biliyorum
these poor inner city kids,
in this environment, could say,
tarafından yönetiliyor.
about how I made it out,
hakkındaki soruları aldığımda
or affluent household,
or a teacher will come to their rescue
bir ebeveyn ya da öğretmen
is growing up poor
that no one will help them.
ona yardım etmeyecek.
no social safety nets available.
our public education system
benim kendi görüşümle
of the achievement gap,
ve fakir çocuklar ya da
in educational attainment
beyaz çocuklar arasındaki
ikisinin direkt olarak
to the summer learning loss.
dayandırılabileceğini gösteriyor.
kids forget almost three months
çocuklar neredeyse
during the school year
spend another two months
is only 10 months.
yılı sadece 10 aydır.
öğrendiklerinin beş ayını unuturlarsa
every single year,
then they couldn't regress,
o zaman gerileyemezlerdi,
is poorly designed.
it feels like babysitting.
bebek bakıcılığı gibi geliyor.
to execute an effective summer program
haftasında biterken
programı uygulamasını bekleyebiliriz?
ends the last week of June
just one week later?
bir hafta sonra başlar?
to find the right people,
lojistiği sınıflandırmak için
heyecanlandıracak ilgi çekici müfredat
that excites kids and teachers.
over the summer
eğitmenler yetiştirmek için
as teaching coaches
koçları haline getirecek
college-educated role models
çocukların üniversite tutkularını
their college ambitions?
eğitimlerine katkı yapmaları için
to invest in their education?
danışmanlar haline getirseydik?
they were going to,
they want to attend
the summer learning loss
ikisini kapatmak için
of the achievement gap?
bir yaz okulu tasarlasaydık?
over 4,000 low-income children,
üstünde düşük gelirli çocuğa hizmet etmiş,
dezavantajlı mahallerinde
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
iş yaratmış olacak.
eliminate the summer learning loss
öğrenme kaybını giderdiğini
okumada iki aylık
in the fall three months behind,
geride dönmek yerine,
en iyi yüzde 10'unda
of my class from an Ivy League institution
on our public education system
genel eğitim sistemimizde bir değişim
of the calendar year,
five months of lost time
eğer beş aylık zaman
that we can unlock
kilidini açabileceğimiz
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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