For the first, time it seems possible that we’re figuring out how to accomplish an agonizingly elusive goal: ensuring that low-income students not just enter college but complete college. Bottom line: ...

CHAMPAIGN – Champaign officials are gearing up to offer students with "middle ability levels" additional help on their march toward higher education. About 44 students at Centennial High School in ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS — A career and college readiness program available at a number of Grand Forks schools is intended to close ...

Minority students lag behind white students in college graduation rates. But the AVID program, common in Southern California schools, helps narrow the achievement gap, according to a new report. The ...

Key Peninsula Middle School teacher Janet Eidsmoe works with AVID student Curtis Staples in her classroom last week. LEE GILES III [email protected] A new program in two Peninsula School District ...

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 ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — A program that helps students get ready for college within the El Paso Independent School District is no more. The Advancement Via Individual Determination program has been ...

Aug. 19—MIDLAND — When Midland ISD announced plans to expand its AVID program to include seventh grade students at every junior high campus, Abell Junior High teacher Ashley Bell knew she'd be the ...

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, ...

Suburban school districts with fast-changing demographics are using a college-readiness program called AVID to help close achievement gaps.