{"224101":{"#nid":"224101","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Do Dissections Teach Animal Cruelty?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/rosenberger\u0022\u003ERobert Rosenberger\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;[\u003C\/strong\u003Eassistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Public Policy]\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ewrote an op-ed in the AJC on Sunday, July 21 discussing how mandatory dissection policies within education might need new consideration and review. \u0026nbsp;As he explains in \u003Cem\u003EDo Dissections Teach Animal Cruelty\u003C\/em\u003E, \u0022We should not let the news of Connecticut\u2019s student choice legislation pass by without considering how similar policies here in Georgia might benefit our own children. It is time to start exploiting the untapped potential for computer simulations in biology instruction. It is time to talk about putting the ethical choices involved in classroom dissection into the hands of students and their families.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/news\/opinion\/do-dissections-teach-animal-cruelty\/nYs6n\/\u0022\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003C\/a\u003E, July 21, 2013. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27848","created_gmt":"2013-07-22 12:50:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:35","author":"Claire Woodring","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Pengcheng Zhang","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/news\/opinion\/do-dissections-teach-animal-cruelty\/nYs6n\/","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"70231","name":"animal cruelty"},{"id":"1432","name":"education"},{"id":"36251","name":"robert rosenberger"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}