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Imagining a conversation between Klein and Zuckerberg | GothamSchools

Imagining a conversation between Klein and Zuckerberg | GothamSchools

Imagining a conversation between Klein and Zuckerberg

What if Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had met and been wooed not by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, asreportedly happened this July in Idaho, setting the stage for Zuckerberg’s dramatic $100 million gift, but by our own Joel Klein? A hawk-eyed reader alerted us to the counterintuitive advice Klein might have given him.

The clue lies in a March 2008 issue of the New York Times Magazine in which Paul Tough led a roundtable discussion of education leaders about educational philanthropy. Tough proposed a hypothetical: A “high-