"A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> on Sunday, January 28, 2007 at 10:39 AM -0500 wrote: >Bill, >I hope this is not a completely idiotic question but what is AVID...maybe >it's too early Sunday morning and my mind is not working clearly after a >night of celebrating w/ friends. >Alice
Hi! Here's what Heather said in an earlier posting: >AVID stands for: Advancement Via Individual Determination and is a >wonderful >program for students who are performing middle of the road, along with >other >criteria. It usually focuses on students who would be the first to go to >college in their family, or are from a lower income. The statistics are >overwhelming, about 95% (that may be off by a couple percentage points) of >students who stay in AVID in middle and high go on to college. I found this website which may also be helpful: http://www.avidonline.org/ Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
