Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survivor of nine New York group homes: "There were rats in the stove. I know some girls who tried to commit suicide, and the staff wouldn't even check on them." A traumatized child-care community launched the debate that continues today. Some championed earlier and more extended placement of damaged children in residential treatment, maintaining that institutional permanency was far preferable to a nightmare sequence of foster-care failure after foster-care failure. Says Sarah Breding, Hollygrove's director of social work: "These kids learned through their birth families that adults are going to hurt them. And a foster...
...retarded mother and her alcoholic grandfather because, wrote Forer, "it was the policy . . . to keep the family together." Also Tyrone, 8, whose father, a boxing trainer, had beaten him so badly for wetting his bed that he bore 70 permanent scars: "No agency would even attempt to find placement for Tyrone; the family should be kept together...
...Business Week magazine would have you believe. One HBS official found the new ranking "interesting," reminding us that of America's business schools, Harvard has the most selective admissions process, the highest yield among accepted applicants, the best job placement record and the highest average starting salary for graduates...
...since HBS, like all graduate MBA programs, is essentially a trade school, one would think that the element of job placement would prove paramount. The huge number of applicants (and universal desire to attend once accepted) indicates that MBAs appreciate this well-known fact about...
...graduates were asked by Business Week to judge their school on teaching quality, program content and career placement. According to the survey, Harvard graduates were dissatisfied with the slow pace of curricular reform and the high fees associated with attending the school. Graduates also deplored the administration's lack of responsiveness. One 1994 graduate branded HBS an "archaic dinosaur...