Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
Karim Abouelnaga: O şcoală de vară la care copiii chiar vor să participe
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.
la viitorul îndepărtat.
where you're going to get your next meal
următoarea masă
is going to pay rent that month.
ai tăi chiria în acea lună.
and my friends' parents
şi ai prietenilor mei
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
din ajutorul de stat
eu, frații și surorile mele
to some of New York City's
școli publice din New York.
when I was in seventh grade,
în clasa a şaptea
a 55 percent graduation rate,
to raise our hands
să ne ridicăm mâinile
la facultate.
„Karim, nimeni nu m-a întrebat aşa ceva."
that question before."
are you going to?"
„La ce facultate mergi?”
not to have gone to college.
de a nu se duce la facultate.
„Cum ai reuşit?"
graduated from high school
la o facultate de doi ani.
of a two-year college,
as a Presidential Research Scholar
ca cercetător cu bursă prezidențială,
the very real educational consequences
asupra educaţiei,
on government aid
din bani publici
began to make complete sense to me.
de fratele meu avea sens.
education reformers,
reformatori educaționali
the former US Secretary of Education,
fostul secretar al educaţiei în S.U.A.
of Teach For America,
„Teach for America",
public school like I had.
așa cum am făcut eu.
are la bază o abordare compătimitoare,
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
these poor inner city kids,
din cartierele sărace,
in this environment, could say,
în același mediu ar spune:
să depășești situația."
about how I made it out,
or affluent household,
de clasă mijlocie sau bogate,
or a teacher will come to their rescue
să ofere ajutor
is growing up poor
that no one will help them.
no social safety nets available.
our public education system
of the achievement gap,
din decalajele de performanță,
in educational attainment
to the summer learning loss.
pierderii de cunoștințe din vară.
kids forget almost three months
copiii uită aproape trei luni
during the school year
spend another two months
is only 10 months.
every single year,
then they couldn't regress,
de vară, nu ar regresa,
nu sunt concepute cum trebuie.
is poorly designed.
it feels like babysitting.
to execute an effective summer program
un program de vară eficient
în ultima săptămână din iunie,
ends the last week of June
just one week later?
exact peste o săptămână?
pentru a găsi oamenii potriviţi,
to find the right people,
that excites kids and teachers.
interesant pentru copii și profesori.
over the summer
un program de vară
as teaching coaches
pe profesori în mentori
viitorilor dascăli?
modele de urmat, cu studii superioare,
college-educated role models
aspirațiile academice?
their college ambitions?
nişte copii cu rezultate bune
și să-și ajute prietenii mai mici,
to invest in their education?
în educaţie?
copiii în intelectuali,
they were going to,
unde vor să meargă la facultate,
they want to attend
de vară la care vor să meargă
pierderile de cunoștințe din vară
the summer learning loss
of the achievement gap?
over 4,000 low-income children,
a ajutat peste 4.000 de copii săraci,
de joburi de sezon
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
cartiere din New York.
eliminate the summer learning loss
pierderile de cunoștințe din vară
in the fall three months behind,
trei luni de şcoală,
în avans la matematică
of my class from an Ivy League institution
în cadrul unei instituții Ivy League
on our public education system
de a schimba sistemul educaţional
of the calendar year,
five months of lost time
irosirea a cinci luni de zile
celor două luni din vară.
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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