Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
克林·阿布納加: 孩子們都想上的暑期課程
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.
and my friends' parents
driving taxis and working as janitors.
好像也過得不錯
want to do those things.
through my education,
已經走到了三分之二
to turn things around.
you want to be rich.
也渴望成為有錢人
on government aid
扶養我們長大
to some of New York City's
when I was in seventh grade,
a 55 percent graduation rate,
to raise our hands
that question before."
從來沒被問過這個問題。」
are you going to?"
你打算上哪個大學?」
not to have gone to college.
graduated from high school
of a two-year college,
as a Presidential Research Scholar
總統研究獎學金
the very real educational consequences
on government aid
單親媽媽扶養長大
began to make complete sense to me.
讓我真正瞭解教育的重要性
education reformers,
the former US Secretary of Education,
of Teach For America,
創辦人溫蒂· 克普
public school like I had.
從沒讀過內城裡公立學校
is driven by a sympathetic approach,
是以同情的方式驅動的
these poor inner city kids,
那些貧窮的內城孩子,
in this environment, could say,
可以理直氣壯地說
about how I made it out,
or affluent household,
or a teacher will come to their rescue
is growing up poor
生長在貧窮的家庭
that no one will help them.
no social safety nets available.
our public education system
of the achievement gap,
有三分之二的原因
in educational attainment
to the summer learning loss.
kids forget almost three months
忘了整個學年裡
during the school year
spend another two months
is only 10 months.
every single year,
then they couldn't regress,
他們就不會退步
is poorly designed.
it feels like babysitting.
to execute an effective summer program
能執行一個有效的暑期計畫
ends the last week of June
just one week later?
to find the right people,
that excites kids and teachers.
來激勵老師和孩子
over the summer
as teaching coaches
college-educated role models
their college ambitions?
成為大學生的抱負?
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,
超過 4,000 名低收入的孩子
季節性的工作機會
most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
eliminate the summer learning loss
in the fall three months behind,
課業會落後三個月
他們在數學上的表現超前四個月
of my class from an Ivy League institution
並排行班級前百分之十
on our public education system
就有機會解決公共教育體系上的問題
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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