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 ...

Alicia Silverstone and her son, Bear, are working together to support PETA's new campaign. PETA created the "Cut Class, Not Frogs" campaign to empower schoolchildren to feel comfortable saying no to ...

As the new school year approaches, the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS), headquartered in Chicago, would like to remind students and teachers of the Student Choice Law in Illinois. Illinois ...

Two animal rights groups want to buy more equipment for a Winona Senior High School teacher who offers virtual dissection in her biology class. Sandra Bussian allows her students to choose between ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A rite of passage for generations of often squeamish Hoosier students could be replaced by technology if state Rep. Ragen Hatcher, D-Gary, gets her way. Hatcher is sponsor of House Bill ...

J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida is the first high school in the world to use synthetic animals in lab dissections, as reported by CNN. “We are so excited to have partnered with ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a Virginia-based activist group that works, among other goals, to end what it considers needless dissections of laboratory animals in schools across the ...

I recently read an essay called "Marin teen honored for alternatives to real-frog dissection" about Indigo Prasad, a seventh-grader at Mark Day School in San Rafael, California. I was thrilled to see ...