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.

A lawsuit was filed against Newport-Mesa Unified School District by one of its teachers who alleges that the district retaliated against her for opposing cat dissections in anatomy classes. Karen ...

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 ...

BEAUFORT, S.C., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A donation to a South Carolina high school to buy cadaver cats has sparked controversy over animal dissection in schools. Battery Creek High School anatomy and ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE directions for the dissection of the cat are here so arranged that the whole operation may be carried out on a single specimen, and the aim of the book is to give the student a clear survey of the ...

THE choice of a mammalian type suitable for dissection as an introduction to human anatomy and physiology has usually fallen on the rabbit or the rat. The rodent, however, is in many ways less ...