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Considering Doing a Chick-Hatching Project? Please Don’t.

For educational value, chick-hatching projects miss the mark. Thankfully, there are several programs that meet curricular objectives and save chickens.

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Progress! Most U.S. Students Can Opt Out of Dissection

“American Biology Teacher” publishes PETA’s dissection data.

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Anti-Bullying Curriculum Shows Kids How to Share the World

Amid a national youth epidemic of bullying and abuse of animals, one of the most important lessons that a teacher can impart is kindness.

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Teens Suspected in Barbaric Bludgeoning Deaths of Nearly a Dozen Porcupines

Those who torture animals often go on to harm their fellow humans.

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Let’s Teach Our Children Compassion

If we want kids to respect life, let’s start by cutting out cruel classroom dissections.

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13 Times Schools and Students Spoke Up for Orcas

Check out these inspiring ways that schools, teachers, and students across the country have spoken up for orcas in captivity!

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Does Dissection Teach Kids to ‘Devalue Life’?

Noting controversial video footage showing students in Oklahoma dancing with cat corpses, Miami–Dade County schools have banned cat dissections.

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4-H Hardens Hearts

Agricultural programs are cruel to animals—and to the children who must learn to close their eyes to suffering.

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Victory! Vegan Teacher Wins Free Speech Battle

The elementary school teacher who lost his job for defending cows wins in the end.

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Victory! University of Colorado–Boulder Spares Frogs and Rats

Rats have a reason to cheer and frogs can jump for joy following PETA’s campaign.

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Donated Dissection Software Saves Lives

A Texas high school recognizes that animals are not test subjects.

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Outraged Scouts Say “Stop Rabbit Killing!”

After a Boy Scout leader bludgeoned and killed rabbits in front of his troop, PETA is calling for a policy change that will protect animals and kids from violence.

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Victory! Smithsonian Wipes Cruel Lesson Plans From Curriculum

PETA supporters have helped convince the Smithsonian to scratch cruel live-animal lesson plans from its elementary school curriculum.

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First All-Vegetarian Public School Wins PETA Award

Educators in Flushing might be blushing today. Public School (P.S.) 244 in that Queens neighborhood in New York did something royally kind to animals by becoming the country’s first all-vegetarian traditional public school, so PETA’s humane-education division, TeachKind, is giving the school its Compassionate School Award. For P.S. 244, going vegetarian was an easy decision because … Read more »

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The Chicken That Could Save Cleveland

PETA is dishing up a partial solution to the Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s budget shortfall: Don’t cut teachers’ jobs—cut animal products instead. We’ve offered to pay to place ads featuring our chick mascot, Nugget, on school lunch trays to encourage kids to go vegan: And if the school board takes us up on our offer, … Read more »

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