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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The walk across the commencement stage is the same distance for everyone. The road leading to it is longer and tougher for some. Erin Park and Sam Bartlett get that. They teach Advancement Via ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students at Lake Worth Middle School stuck out their chests and held their heads high as they stood tall for pictures with two distinguished alumni during their recent visits to the school. The two ...

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, ...