Three high school students gather around a desk to dissect a human brain. They look at the inner layers and then start removing each piece, all without benefit of a knife. “Let’s try the whale,” says ...

It’s “gross” to dissect a frog, but Karlie McCubbins didn’t mind inspecting an owl pellet and examining the eye of a fish. Karlie, 8, of Heyworth, was one of 10 students at the two-week Dissection and ...

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 ...

The frogs are made using synthetic tissue and mimic properties of a live frog. The smell of formaldehyde in classrooms may soon be a thing of the past as high schools begin to introduce synthetic ...

When Lauren S. Skaskiw refused to dissect a fetal pig last year, she learned a lesson in biology—and civics. The junior at Woodstock Union High School in eastern Vermont managed to earn her class’s ...

When philosophy senior Donny Mansfield was in middle school, he had to dissect a frog for class. It wasn’t an assignment he remembers fondly. “It was just a turn off to kill something to learn,” he ...

Regarding the March 27 letter, "Frog incident sparks probe of teacher in Dennis Twp.": When I was a Dennis Township student, the eighth-grade class dissected a fetal pig. I was less than enthused by ...

Next week, when her classmates set out to dissect a frog or a rat in science class, ninth-grader Tracy Logan will be somewhere else working on a report far from the scent of formaldehyde. The ...

As high school students, we follow a rigorous curriculum that teaches themes in Shakespeare, how to dissect a frog or solve a quadratic equation, diligently preparing for the next quiz or exam. But ...