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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes a bright idea sheds light far beyond the area it wasexpected to illuminate. Take, for example, the AVID program. AVID offers high school students an opportunity to take extraactivities and ...