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Zuckerberg to Donate $100 Million to Newark Schools
- annajohnson 16y agoI think this is terrific news and I'm really pleased to see Mark Z. setting up a foundation and investing a significant amount of money in such a worthy cause as education. Having said that... am I being too cynical... or is it just a coincidence that this announcement should come just before the release of The Social Effect movie which, from everything I've read, paints Mark in such a bad light? Is the $100 donation announcement an example of Facebook PR in damage control? It doesn't detract from the good the $100 million will (hopefully) do, of course, but the timing is interesting...
- alttab 16y agotl;dr Just In time for the movie!
- sahillavingia 16y agoThat's $100 million in Facebook damage control, I'd say.
- pan69 16y agoWhy does he remind me of Beeker in that photo?
- donaldc 16y agoNewark spends about $22,000 a year on each of its 40,000 pupils, but only about half of its students graduate. That's over $260,000 per student over 12 years! It's great that Zuckerberg is donating about $100 million to the worthy cause of education, but in this instance I find it hard to believe that lack of money is the problem.
- MikeCapone 16y agoFor maximum effectiveness, he should probably have donated it to the Gates Foundation and earmarked it for education.
- moondistance 16y agoIt would be very cool if even a tenth of this was put towards online education systems. $10M could go a long way towards improving online education, esp. with Facebook as a partner!