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...newspapers were filled with horror stories not only about failures to remove children from dangerous homes but also about abuse in foster families and kids who bounced almost unnoticed from one inappropriate foster-care experience to the next. A report commissioned by the Reagan Administration in the late '80s concluded: "Foster care is intended to protect children from neglect and abuse at the hands of parents and other family members, yet all too often it becomes an equally cruel form of neglect and abuse by the state...
...director of social work: "These kids learned through their birth families that adults are going to hurt them. And a foster home is itself a really emotionally charged situation. But they can be successful in residential care." Others argued that foster care had been fairly effective until the '80s onslaught -- and could be made so again. "The foster family is the solution to our problems," says Joe Kroll of the North American Council on Adoptable Children. "Professionalize it, support it, compensate it. The costs of foster care would go up, but they would still be far less than the costs...
Harvard Law, the nation's oldest, largest and most prestigious law school, found itself at the center of national attention when scandals erupted over hiring practices in the late '80s. By 1990 the Law School's faculty was still 92 percent male and 95 percent white-numbers which both students and some liberal faculty were working to change...
Conservative faculty members stood by the traditional case study method and Socratic lecture format while liberal agitators, hired between the late '60s and mid '80s, demanded greater freedom to implement what was known as Critical Learning Studies (CLS). Harvard's highest offices resisted a number of appointments which would have diversified campus ideology. Fueled by pre-existing animosities between liberals and conservatives, opposition on hiring practices developed into personal and divisive debate which poisoned the atmosphere, inspired student demonstrations and long sit-ins, and compelled the first Black tenured professor, Derrick Bell, to leave the school in protest...
24th century: Star Trek forgotten; cult forms around Shatner's '80s cop show, T.J. Hooker...