Officials say the Los Angeles middle school attended by renowned attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. will be renamed in his honor. The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to rename the Mt. Vernon Middle School after the attorney, who was best known for his representation of O. J. Simpson.

A federal judge rules Tuesday "intelligent design" cannot be mentioned in biology class in a Pennsylvania school district. Judge John E. Jones III rules Dover Area School Board members violated the constitution when they ordered its biology curriculum must include the concept that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause.

Authorities say the 11-year-old son of a special education teacher brought a loaded gun to the elementary school where he was a student and his mother worked. . . on two separate occasions!Linnea C. Holdren, 43, is suspended from her position and charged with two felony counts of child endangerment for allegedly giving the boy the . 22-caliber pistol.

About one in 20 U. S. adults have such poor English skills that they can't read a newspaper, understand the directions on a bottle of pills or, in many cases, carry on a basic conversation. The findings come from a new federal survey that offers the first peek in more than a decade at the USA's "non-literate" adult population.

A poem in which the first letters of each line spell out "President George W. Bush" has appeared in a Pakistani school textbook, prompting the Education ministry to order it be removed. According to Reuters,