Rob Gira Friday, March 4, 2011 at 12:56PM 
By: Rob Gira, Executive Vice President, AVID Center
At AVID Center, we support the notion that more students should take AP, as long as they have support. We also believe that a well implemented AP program can bring academic coherence to a school and to a district.
AVID Center Friday, February 25, 2011 at 1:37PM 
Raising standards and expecting more out of our children can be beneficial, but it’s not enough (and why would we lower standards?). Frankly, if raising the bar were all we had to do, we would see tremendous success in many places.
AVID Center Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 7:57AM 
As we begin the second decade of the 21st Century, we
find ourselves increasingly called to account for the performance of our schools and the perceived loss of international intellectual advantage enjoyed by previous generations of Americans. In spite of an array of well-meaning reform efforts on the state and national level, broad-based institutional success has proved elusive. And while limited gains have been made on a number of the most basic fronts, the professional press and the general public concede that there is still much work to be done. AVID -- its mindset and its methods -- is central to that work.
Jim Nelson Monday, February 14, 2011 at 4:00PM Jim Nelson responds to the February 2011 "Pathways to Prosperity" report issued by Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Nelson points out that while the report does have its merits, it goes wrong in some fundamental ways, especially with the assertion that we as a nation have been too narrowly focused for the past 20 years on four-year degrees.
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Rob Gira Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 7:56AM 
If you have ever visited an AVID site, you have seen the AVID Binder: A three-ringed collection of academic essentials, including Cornell notes, planning sheets, learning logs, class assignments, a pouch of required tools (highlighters, pens, pencils, etc.), all carefully divided and organized. In our AVID college readiness world, we have many artifacts and symbols that define our students as highly academic. Nothing, though, is so pervasive, so personal, so useful, and dare I say, beloved, as the AVID Binder.