SPED: Insufficient Laws Governing School Restraints

Schools restrain disabled children all the time, according to this post from ProPublica, but the state laws governing what restraints are allowed and whether parents should be notified are uneven and often lacking -- and students have been hurt or even killed due to restraints in schools.  (Lack of Regs for Restraint of Disabled Children). 

Fewer than half the states even have laws addressing the use of restraints, and those that do are often full of gaps.  "About 40 percent of states have no law concerning restraint and seclusion in schools. Fewer than half of states ask schools to notify parents when children are restrained or placed in isolation, and 90 percent of states allow face-down restraints."

INTERNET: Do Online Search Tools Improve Research Or Just Narrow It?

Online research over-emphasizes a small set of recent popular research at the expense of older, more diverse studies, according to this Boston Globe article (Group think):  "Leafing through print journals or browsing the stacks can expose researchers to a context that is missing in the highly targeted searches of PubMed or PsychInfo...Social Science Research Network (SSRN), the widely used Internet resource, offers lists of "top papers," "top authors," and "top institutions."