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Work · December 26, 2015

Good Life Project- Zuckerberg, Booker and One Journalist’s Quest For the Real Story

The story of a lifetime only comes around once…

Good Life Project- Zuckerberg, Booker and One Journalist’s Quest For the Real Story launched on December 26, 2015 with 58 votes, #1,453 of 3,504 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Dale Russakoff spent five years following the story of a 100 million dollar donation to the Newark school system and who gets a seat at the decision table.

Dale Russakoff spent more than three decades as a top news journalist, reporting for The Washington Post for more than 28 years. When Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced a $100 million grant, teaming with then rock-start mayor, Cory Booker, to revolutionize the Newark schools and create a model for national education reform, she’d found a story worthy of her full attention and her first-ever book. Leaving her job, she spent four and a half years embedded in the lives, conversations and inner-most workings of what seemed, at first, to be positioned as a stunning transformational endeavor. What unfolded on the ground, though, was a profoundly different story. One that seemed…from goodlifeproject.com

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