Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
כארים אבואלנאגה: בית ספר בקיץ שילדים באמת רוצים ללכת אליו
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
איפה תשיגו את הארוחה הבאה
is going to pay rent that month.
את השכירות החודש.
and my friends' parents
driving taxis and working as janitors.
want to do those things.
through my education,
to turn things around.
you want to be rich.
on government aid
to some of New York City's
when I was in seventh grade,
a 55 percent graduation rate,
to raise our hands
מבקשים מאיתנו להרים את היד
that question before."
are you going to?"
not to have gone to college.
לא ללכת למכללה.
graduated from high school
of a two-year college,
as a Presidential Research Scholar
על מלגת מחקר נשיאותית
the very real educational consequences
על התוצאות החינוכיות האמיתיות
on government aid
עם סיוע ממשלתי
began to make complete sense to me.
נראה לי מאוד הגיוני.
education reformers,
הכי גדולים שלנו,
the former US Secretary of Education,
שר החינוך לשעבר של ארצות הברית,
of Teach For America,
public school like I had.
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
מונעות על ידי גישה מבינה,
these poor inner city kids,
לילדים העניים האלה בשכונות,
in this environment, could say,
שגדל בסביבות האלו, יכול להגיד,
about how I made it out,
or affluent household,
or a teacher will come to their rescue
is growing up poor
that no one will help them.
no social safety nets available.
our public education system
במערכת החינוך הציבורי שלנו
of the achievement gap,
ששני שליש מפער ההישגים שלנו,
in educational attainment
to the summer learning loss.
kids forget almost three months
ילדים שוכחים כמעט שלושה חודשים
during the school year
spend another two months
is only 10 months.
היא רק 10 חודשים.
every single year,
של למידה כל שנה,
then they couldn't regress,
אז הם לא היו נסוגים,
is poorly designed.
מתוכננים בצורה עלובה.
it feels like babysitting.
to execute an effective summer program
לבצע תוכנית קיץ אפקטיבית
ends the last week of June
בשבוע האחרון של יוני
just one week later?
to find the right people,
למצוא את האנשים הנכונים,
that excites kids and teachers.
שמרגשת ילדים ומורים.
over the summer
as teaching coaches
college-educated role models
their college ambitions?
את שאיפות המכללה שלהם?
to invest in their education?
they were going to,
they want to attend
the summer learning loss
of the achievement gap?
over 4,000 low-income children,
מעל 4,000 ילדים עם הכנסה נמוכה,
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
eliminate the summer learning loss
נמנעים מאובדן הלימודים בקיץ
in the fall three months behind,
בחוסר של שלושה חודשים,
של ארבעה חודשים במתמטיקה
of my class from an Ivy League institution
במוסד בליגת הקיסוס,
on our public education system
על מערכת החינוך הציבורי שלנו
of the calendar year,
five months of lost time
חמישה חודשים של זמן אבוד
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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