Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alicia Silverstone and her son, Bear, are working together to support PETA's new campaign. PETA created the "Cut Class, Not Frogs" ...

Washington, DC—Rancho Verde High School in Moreno Valley, CA is the first school to accept a challenge by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) to discontinue animal dissections. In conjunction with the ...

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 ...

As the California State Board of Education prepares to decide which new educational materials will be incorporated into state schools, PETA supporter Kim Basinger sent the board’s president a letter ...

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 ...

So far, nine schools in California and Maine have agreed to end animal dissections in response to a challenge issued by AWI, Save the Frogs! and Digital Frog International. In exchange for their ...

Teens Now is a series by Grace Lee that features teenagers around the world who have inspired others in creative ways. Last year, Jaeah Kim and Jae Kim, 17-year-old seniors at Hunter College High ...

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 ...

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 ...

The use of animals in lab classes at the UI can range from a demonstration of handling livestock in an agriculture class to experiments on how a certain drug will affect the heart rate of a live, ...