Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
Karim Abouelnaga: Uma escola de verão de que os miúdos gostam
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to thinking that far ahead.
a pensar a tão grande distância.
where you're going to get your next meal
de onde virá a próxima refeição
vai pagar a renda do mês.
is going to pay rent that month.
and my friends' parents
e os pais dos meus amigos
driving taxis and working as janitors.
e a trabalhar como porteiros.
want to do those things.
fazer essas coisas.
through my education,
de completar a minha educação
to turn things around.
para alterar as coisas.
you want to be rich.
queremos ser ricos.
de sete irmãos
on government aid
com a ajuda do governo,
com rendimentos baixos,
to some of New York City's
fomos para as escolas públicas
when I was in seventh grade,
quando estava no sétimo ano,
ir para as aulas.
a 55 percent graduation rate,
de taxa de sucesso
que acabavam o liceu
to raise our hands
a pedir-nos para levantar a mão
that question before."
are you going to?"
'Para que faculdade queres ir?' "
not to have gone to college.
que não iria para a faculdade.
uma pergunta diferente:
que tinha tido sorte,
graduated from high school
ao mesmo tempo,
um curso de dois anos.
of a two-year college,
porque é que ele abandonara
as a Presidential Research Scholar
como investigador presidencial
the very real educational consequences
as verdadeiras consequências educativas
on government aid
com a ajuda do governo
as escolas que frequentara.
began to make complete sense to me.
a trajetória do meu irmão mais velho.
education reformers,
do ensino mais admiráveis
the former US Secretary of Education,
antigo Secretário do Ensino dos EUA,
of Teach For America,
do "Ensino para a América" —
public school like I had.
uma escola pública como a minha.
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
são motivadas pela simpatia,
these poor inner city kids,
das cidades do interior,
que cresceu neste ambiente, diria:
in this environment, could say,
que vocês enfrentam
como é que eu consegui lá chegar,
about how I made it out,
de pedir ajuda.
or affluent household,
ou seja, desafogada,
or a teacher will come to their rescue
um pai ou um professor para ajudar,
is growing up poor
está a crescer na pobreza,
that no one will help them.
de ninguém a ajudar.
no social safety nets available.
nenhum apoio disponível.
our public education system
sistema público de ensino
of the achievement gap,
do fosso nos resultados,
in educational attainment
nos resultados escolares
to the summer learning loss.
à perda de conhecimentos no verão.
kids forget almost three months
do que aprenderam no ano letivo,
during the school year
spend another two months
passam mais dois meses
is only 10 months.
tem apenas 10 meses.
de aprendizagem, todos os anos,
every single year,
then they couldn't regress,
durante o verão, não regrediriam
is poorly designed.
está mal concebida.
it feels like babysitting.
é tomar conta de crianças.
to execute an effective summer program
que executem um programa de verão eficaz
ends the last week of June
acaba no fim de junho
just one week later?
uma semana depois?
para encontrar as pessoas certas,
to find the right people,
that excites kids and teachers.
que entusiasme miúdos e professores.
over the summer
as teaching coaches
em conselheiros pedagógicos
college-educated role models
estudantes saídos da universidade
as suas ambições académicas?
their college ambitions?
de serem mentores
to invest in their education?
a irem para a universidade
faculdades querem ir,
they were going to,
they want to attend
que eles quisessem frequentar
the summer learning loss
de conhecimentos do verão
of the achievement gap?
do fosso de resultados?
over 4,000 low-income children,
mais de 4000 miúdos de rendimentos baixos,
aspirantes a professores
empregos sazonais
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
carenciados de Nova Iorque.
a perda de conhecimentos do verão
eliminate the summer learning loss
in the fall three months behind,
no outono, com três meses de atraso,
de avanço em matemática
melhores da minha turma
of my class from an Ivy League institution
on our public education system
no nosso sistema de ensino público,
of the calendar year,
five months of lost time
cinco meses de tempo perdido
that we can unlock
que podemos encontrar
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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