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 ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (Sept. 16, 2015) -- AVID students at Faith Middle School are serious about preparing for their futures. On Sept. 10 students participating in AVID, which stands for advancement via ...

There are plenty of new names to learn when school convenes at Bayside High. Howard, Ole Miss, Tulane and Vanderbilt are but a few of an endless string of college pennant names that line the corridors ...

Quick glances and prideful smiles were exchanged, then the three of them exclaimed in synchrony, “We all got into college!” Seniors Jocelyn Soriano, Jay Garcia and Josiah Beharry were responding to ...

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 ...

Tania Sias, an Odessa High School senior AVID student, answers a question during a panel discussion with teachers Thursday at the OHS Performing Arts Center. Officials from the local, state and ...

In school, honors programs are tailored to fit the needs of high-achieving students, while remedial programs give support to underachieving students. But those who fall in the middle rarely have many ...

Students in Ian Jackson’s AVID class at Taylor Middle-High School in Pierson don't need any instruction when they walk into his room on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They divide themselves into groups based ...

Augsburg College senior Edgardo Becerra always knew he wanted to go to college. He comes from what he calls a “financially unstable” family, with parents working overtime and second shift jobs. While ...

Modesto High School staff and students welcomed about 30 educators from around California this week to see its AVID program in action. It was the first “showcase” day for the school since the ...