Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
Karim Abouelnaga: Una scuola estiva che piace ai ragazzi
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
il tuo prossimo pasto
is going to pay rent that month.
ad arrivare a fine mese.
and my friends' parents
e quelli dei miei amici
driving taxis and working as janitors.
facendo i tassisti e i bidelli.
want to do those things.
a fare quelle cose.
through my education,
del mio percorso formativo,
to turn things around.
per cambiare tutto.
you want to be rich.
desideri essere ricco.
da una madre single
on government aid
to some of New York City's
scuole di New York.
when I was in seventh grade,
a 55 percent graduation rate,
nella mia scuola era del 55%,
to raise our hands
di alzare la mano
di andare all'università.
Brennan disse:
that question before."
una cosa del genere."
are you going to?"
not to have gone to college.
di non andare all'università.
un'altra domanda:
un ragazzo fortunato,
graduated from high school
ci siamo diplomati,
dopo due anni,
of a two-year college,
avesse abbandonato,
as a Presidential Research Scholar
the very real educational consequences
da una madre single
on government aid
began to make complete sense to me.
education reformers,
migliori riformatori,
the former US Secretary of Education,
dell'istruzione Arne Duncan,
of Teach For America,
"Teach for America" Wendy Kopp,
public school like I had.
di periferia come me.
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
these poor inner city kids,
ragazzi di periferia,
ragazzi di colore e latini",
in this environment, could say,
cresciuto in quegli ambienti, direbbe:
about how I made it out,
di chiedere aiuto.
or affluent household,
or a teacher will come to their rescue
un professore pronto ad aiutarlo
is growing up poor
è un ragazzo povero
that no one will help them.
no social safety nets available.
our public education system
la pubblica istruzione
of the achievement gap,
i due terzi del divario educativo,
in educational attainment
accademici
to the summer learning loss.
di scuole estive.
kids forget almost three months
dimenticano quasi 3 mesi
during the school year
spend another two months
spendere altri 2 mesi
is only 10 months.
every single year,
then they couldn't regress,
non regredirebbero,
is poorly designed.
sono mal pensate.
it feels like babysitting.
to execute an effective summer program
organizzino un un buon programma estivo
ends the last week of June
a fine giugno
just one week later?
solo una settimana dopo?
to find the right people,
per trovare le persone giuste,
that excites kids and teachers.
stimolante per ragazzi e professori.
over the summer
as teaching coaches
college-educated role models
their college ambitions?
ad andare all'università?
to invest in their education?
come studenti,
they were going to,
università sceglieranno,
they want to attend
la perdita di apprendimento
the summer learning loss
of the achievement gap?
over 4,000 low-income children,
avrà aiutato oltre 4 000 ragazzi poveri,
di lavoro stagionali
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
di New York City.
eliminate the summer learning loss
in the fall three months behind,
a scuola 3 mesi indietro,
di vantaggio in matematica
of my class from an Ivy League institution
nel top 10 % della mia classe
on our public education system
il segno nell'istruzione pubblica
of the calendar year,
di due mesi dell'anno,
five months of lost time
per recuperarne 5,
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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