A new California bill, AB 1586, could ban animal dissection in K-12 classrooms throughout the state. The Replacing Animals in Science (RAISE) Act argues that animal dissection is costly, exposes ...

Kudos to Connecticut legislators for passing a law allowing students to opt out of animal dissection and be provided with humane alternatives. This crude exercise has no place in 21st century ...

Dear EarthTalk: Are the animals used in classroom dissection taken from the wild? If so, wouldn't this be endangering their populations? Are there other environmental issues associated with classroom ...

ANNAPOLIS — State Sen. Ronald Young, D-Frederick and Washington counties, this week proposed legislation requiring that public and nonpublic schools allow students the right to refuse to participate ...

Robert Rosenberger is an assistant professor of philosophy in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. He studies how users interact with technologies, investigating topics such as educational ...

The protest barely qualified as one. Six staunch PETA supporters, including one inside a cat costume and another dressed as a pig, paced the sidewalk outside High School District 113 in Highland Park.

The Madison Metropolitan School District is instructing its teachers to provide an equally educational alternative to students whose parents request an alternative to animal dissections in class.

Participants in Bristol Myers-Squibb Science Horizons Camp at Syracuse University dissect a fetal pig in July 2010. Fayetteville-Manlius High School biology teacher Ben Gnacik (center) assists H.W.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — One Indiana lawmaker wants to create options for students who just don’t want do to wield scalpels in the classroom for animal dissections. You know the traditional tools of ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — State Sen. Ronald Young, D-Frederick and Washington counties, this week proposed legislation requiring that public and nonpublic schools allow students the right to refuse to ...