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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

POMONA – AVID students, faculty and staff gathered in the gym of Pomona High School on Wednesday afternoon waiting for a much-anticipated announcement. A team of state and national representatives of ...

POMONA – Since 1995, Pomona High School’s AVID program has provided students with the tools they need to succeed in high school as well as college. Today, Pomona High will learn if it will be named an ...

He repeated third grade, then lived with his father in Garrett County for a year. He returned to Anne Arundel County to live with his grandparents before starting fifth grade, he said. That’s when he ...

El Modena High School student Celene Vargas was chosen as the Senior Standout in the AVID program, and honored by the Orange County Department of Education at the AVID Senior Standout Recognition and ...