When scores of Highland Park students graduated Saturday, their ranks included the school’s first ever class of AVID students. Highland Park joined Topeka High this year in graduating a group of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. High schools across the country are offering an elective class that advocates say gives middle-of-the-road students extra support ...

Erin O’Neill is passionate about getting kids ready for life — especially junior high and high school students. So, as Peninsula School District’s Director of College, Career and Life Readiness, ...

Advancement Via Individual Determination — AVID — is the name and aim of a college-prep program that tackles the 'achievement gap.' Guadalupe Genis, Sammy McMahon and Edward Dominguez, ninth-graders ...

The influence of teachers, the support of the AVID program and his own inner drive have propelled former Odessan Dé Kwaan Wynn to success. Now a software engineer living in Dallas, Wynn overcame a ...

Melody Smith Jones's column ("Mr. President, poor kids want a shot" Jan. 18) acknowledges that Cincinnati teachers, like many across the nation, are up against overwhelming odds in educating large ...

For the past 35 years, the San Diego-based AVID program has built a national reputation for steering underserved students to college. Turns out that AVID graduates — largely poor and minority students ...

There’s an elective available at three Utica Community Schools buildings that provides students the tools they need to succeed in college. Through Advanced Via Individual Determination, or AVID, ...

The national executive director of AVID, a successful college preparatory program for students in the middle, vowed Tuesday to continue a strong operation in California, in spite of Gov. Jerry Brown’s ...

High schools across the country are offering an elective class that advocates say gives middle-of-the-road students extra support as they prepare for college. AVID, which stands for Advancement Via ...