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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marie Rose, third grade teacher at Awbrey Park Elementary, poses with current and former students during an AVID Spotlight event ...

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 ...

IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING, CALL DAYTONA BEACH POLICE. AFTER ABOUT 20 YEARS, A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION WILL SOON BE CUT FROM MOST VOLUSIA COUNTY MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS AND ...

Every Tuesday and Thursday, the students in Brent Mikolaycik's eighth-grade class at have tutorials. Each student in a group of five or six will ask a question, and the students take several minutes ...

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 ...