Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
卡里姆 · 博尔纳嘎: 孩子们真正想去的暑期学校
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
is going to pay rent that month.
and my friends' parents
开着出租车,或者当个看门人。
driving taxis and working as janitors.
want to do those things.
through my education,
走了三分之二的旅程,
to turn things around.
you want to be rich.
你想要变得富有。
on government aid
to some of New York City's
when I was in seventh grade,
我有60多次的旷课记录,
a 55 percent graduation rate,
是如何要求我们举手发言的,
to raise our hands
that question before."
are you going to?"
“你要去哪所大学?”
对他来说简直不可想象。
not to have gone to college.
graduated from high school
of a two-year college,
as a Presidential Research Scholar
进入康内尔大学时,
the very real educational consequences
靠着政府救济抚养长大,
on government aid
began to make complete sense to me.
人生轨迹为何如此。
education reformers,
教育改革家们,
the former US Secretary of Education,
“为美国而教”组织的创始人,
of Teach For America,
public school like I had.
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
是由同情的方式驱动的,
these poor inner city kids,
环境里的人会说:
in this environment, could say,
about how I made it out,
曾经如何做到的时候,
寻求帮助而感到难为情。
or affluent household,
会前来为他们解围,
or a teacher will come to their rescue
孩子生长在贫穷的环境中
is growing up poor
that no one will help them.
no social safety nets available.
社会安全感的联系。
our public education system
of the achievement gap,
三分之二的成就差距,
in educational attainment
to the summer learning loss.
kids forget almost three months
孩子们一个夏天就几乎忘光了
during the school year
spend another two months
is only 10 months.
失去五个月的学习时间,
every single year,
then they couldn't regress,
那么他们的知识不会退步,
is poorly designed.
it feels like babysitting.
to execute an effective summer program
执行一个有效的暑期项目呢?
ends the last week of June
just one week later?
to find the right people,
孩子和老师的有吸引力的课程。
that excites kids and teachers.
over the summer
as teaching coaches
college-educated role models
their college ambitions?
他们的大学志向,那会怎样?
to invest in their education?
they were going to,
they want to attend
the summer learning loss
又会怎样?
of the achievement gap?
over 4,000 low-income children,
4000多位低收入家庭的儿童,
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
消除了暑期中的知识损失
eliminate the summer learning loss
in the fall three months behind,
三个月的进度损失,
从一所常青藤高校毕业,
of my class from an Ivy League institution
公共教育制度上取得初步进展,
on our public education system
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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