NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A new policy has significantly limited the number of children taking part in gifted student programs in New York schools this year, data shows.

NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Parents have a beef with New York State's writing exam that asks fourth-graders to psychoanalyze the behavior of "Brownie the Cow."

NEW YORK, March 3 (UPI) -- New York City school officials, casting about for solutions to chronic problems teaching young adolescents, plan to close numerous middle schools.

NEW YORK, July 31 (UPI) -- New York City schools are giving up on more and more students, most of them struggling academically, it was reported Thursday.

Americans generally support military action against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and while most think war is inevitable, there is no rush to begin it, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll.

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The smallpox vaccines ordered by the United Kingdom and the United States likely will be equally effective or possibly, they may be equally ineffective, New Scientist reports.

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