NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) — It's a rite of passage in schools across the U.S.: frog dissection. Sometimes it happens in middle school, sometimes in high school. Feelings about the lesson are ...

For this series, we've been thinking a lot about the iconic tools that some of us remember using — if only for a short time — in our early schooling. Things like the slide rule and protractor, the ...

East Rock seventh grader Jeryl searches for frog’s large intestines… Credit: Maya McFadden Photos …while others check out the frog’s tongue and teeth. East Rock School seventh graders Leia and Lesly ...

Washington, DC—Seven California schools have accepted a challenge by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) to discontinue all animal dissections and lead the way to animal-friendly science education.

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (WFLA) – Students at a New Port Richey High School have moved from dead, preserved frogs for dissection in science class, to synthetic, man-made amphibians. SynDaver is a ...

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 ...