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 ...

In 1980, California teacher Mary Catherine Swanson started a program called AVID to help immigrant and minority students get into college. AVID, which stands for Advancement Via Individual ...

New research suggests that the college-readiness system known as AVID—Advancement Via Individual Determination—may be effective in preparing underserved students to succeed in college. The National ...

Nancy Berthold has spent most of her life either teaching or learning in Mesa Public Schools. She was born in Mesa, attended Hawthorne Elementary, Kino Junior High and Mountain View High and now ...

New UCLA-led research finds that a college preparatory program for youth experiencing educational inequities that operates in about 13 percent of U.S public high schools has a positive effect on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 19—MIDLAND — When Midland ISD announced plans to expand its AVID program to include seventh grade students at every junior ...

TORII STATION, Okinawa — AVID teachers from around the Pacific met last week to swap strategies and learn new methods for grooming their students for success. The Advancement Via Individual ...