Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
करीम अबौएलनाग: गर्मियों की स्कूल जहां बच्चे सच में जाना चाहें
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.
कैसे देंगे यह सोचना पड़ेगा।
and my friends' parents
driving taxis and working as janitors.
ठीकठाक कमा लेते थे।
want to do those things.
through my education,
अच्छी खासी पढ़ाई भी करली थी,
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,
तब ६० दिन स्कूल नही गया,
a 55 percent graduation rate,
to raise our hands
that question before."
are you going to?"
not to have gone to college.
graduated from high school
of a two-year college,
as a Presidential Research Scholar
कॉर्नेल में गया
the very real educational consequences
on government aid
began to make complete sense to me.
education reformers,
the former US Secretary of Education,
of Teach For America,
public school like I had.
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
these poor inner city kids,
in this environment, could say,
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
of the achievement gap,
in educational attainment
to the summer learning loss.
kids forget almost three months
during the school year
spend another two months
is only 10 months.
every single year,
then they couldn't regress,
तो वो कम भूलेंगे,
is poorly designed.
स्कूल के ढांचे ठीक नहीं है।
it feels like babysitting.
to execute an effective summer program
एक असरदार प्रणाली दे
ends the last week of June
जून के आखिरी सप्ताह में
just one week later?
to find the right people,
that excites kids and teachers.
जो शिक्षक एवं बच्चे दोनों को आकर्षित करें।
over the summer
as teaching coaches
college-educated role models
their college ambitions?
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,
आय वाले बच्चों की मदद कियी,
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
कोई भी लाभ प्राप्त नहीं है।
eliminate the summer learning loss
in the fall three months behind,
of my class from an Ivy League institution
इंस्टिट्यूट के पेहले १०% ग्रेजुएट में हूं
on our public education system
क्या आप शिक्षण प्रणाली में
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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