Bluffton High School teacher Margaret DiPietro talks with students Ivy Schleicher, left, Carly Thomas, center, and Meg Tilton, right, Thursday morning during a class assignment dissecting a sparrow.

SAN ANTONIO – The North East Independent School District will no longer dissect cats in its biology and anatomy and physiology classes, the district confirmed Tuesday. The practice came under fire in ...

But she conquers her fear. She dissects a cat for a human anatomy class with 15 of her West High School peers. The dissection project is the reason many students sign up for the elective class, and ...

NEWPORT BEACH – A series of crude photos and comments posted on Facebook that depict Newport Harbor High School students posing with cat carcasses during a science dissection lab remained online ...

NEWPORT BEACH – A national physicians group that opposes animal dissections in schools is calling on Newport Harbor High School to stop dissecting cats in science classes in the wake of a series of ...

Replacing animal dissections with computer simulations in high school biology classrooms at first sounds like an idea that deserves a fair hearing. But the logic employed by one proponent of this idea ...

Sixteen-year-old high school junior Brynnan Grimes was appalled when she learned last August that she’d have to skin and dissect a cat during her anatomy class at Culpeper County High School. “I never ...