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Since 2006, the American School Blog has kept students, parents and school officials up to date on what’s happening at American School. Below are our most recent blog posts. Visit the American School Blog Archive to read noteworthy blogs from over the years.
Testimonial Thursday
It’s a Thursday, so let’s hear a testimonial from one of our students. Katie from Illinois writes, “The study guides really helped me on the exams. Doing the self-check test questions really does pay off.” We thank Katie for her words and for her advice. Our...
Today’s Anniversary: Grand Canyon National Park
It’s February 26, and Grand Canyon National Park was established on this date in 1919. While the Grand Canyon is one of the most majestic natural wonders in the United States, today’s anniversary also got us thinking about the immense size of some real and...
American School Receives Several Homeschool.com Best Educational Websites Nominations
American School is proud to receive several nominations in Homeschool.com’s 2025 Best Educational Websites for Kids program. American School was nominated in the multiple subjects, language arts, mathematics, foreign language, science, computer science and coding,...
Celebrating R.T. Miller
Today’s blog is going to celebrate American School founder R.T. Miller, who was born on February 23, 1867. American School’s 100th anniversary book says “R.T. was an educational pioneer of his day. In an age when a college education was primarily for the wealthy,...
Today’s Anniversary: The Telephone Directory
It’s February 21, and the first telephone directory was published in New Haven, Connecticut on this date in 1878. This event got us thinking about our telephone directory here at American School. We have an internal directory that employees use to contact each other...
Today’s Anniversary: The Postal Service Act
It’s February 20, and the Postal Service Act was signed into law by George Washington on this date in 1792. The Postal Service Act established the United States Postal Service, and so today’s blog is going to talk about mail. Today many homeschooling students take...
18th Annual Create a Greeting Card Scholarship
If you ever wanted to design a greeting card—and possibly receive $10,000 for it—now is your chance. The Gallery Collection is sponsoring a Create a Greeting Card Scholarship. Now in its 18th year, the competition is open to students ages 14 and older who are...
Today’s Birthday: Alessandro Volta
It’s February 18, and Alessandro Volta was born on this date in 1745. He was an Italian physicist who invented the electric battery. You might be familiar with part of his name because the volt, a unit used to measure electric potential and often associated with...
Today’s Anniversaries: Oregon and Arizona
It’s February 14, and two states are celebrating statehood anniversaries today. Oregon became a state on this date in 1859, and Arizona became a state on this date in 1912. These anniversaries got us thinking about American School’s presence on the west coast. As...
American School Closed Monday, February 17, 2025
American School will be closed on Monday, February 17. We will reopen with regular business hours on Tuesday, February 18, and look forward to assisting you with your accredited middle school program, accredited high school program or independent study program at...
Today’s Birthday: Abraham Lincoln
It’s February 12, and Abraham Lincoln was born on this date in 1809. It’s the perfect day to spotlight the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Museum in Springfield, Illinois. Several years ago, American School employees visited the downstate library and museum...
Today’s Birthday: Thomas Edison
It’s February 11, and inventor Thomas Edison was born on this date in 1847. He invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera and the lightbulb among thousands of other inventions, and so naturally his birthday got us thinking about inventions. Since American...
Today’s Anniversary: Deep Blue
It’s February 10, and on this date in 1996 a computer known as Deep Blue defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov for the first time. This event got us thinking about computers and what they can do. Nearly 30 years ago, it was a big deal when a computer defeated a...
Today’s Birthday: Laura Ingalls Wilder
It’s February 7, and author Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on this date in 1867. She is best-known for her Little House on the Prairie children’s books which were adapted into a television series in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her birthday got us thinking about...
Today’s Anniversary: Massachusetts
It’s February 6, and Massachusetts became a state on this date in 1788. Massachusetts is a special state to us at American School because we were founded in Massachusetts in 1897. Although we called Massachusetts home for just a few years before moving to Illinois,...
National School Counseling Week 2025
It’s February 5, and we’re at the exact halfway point of National School Counseling Week. American School is proud to work with thousands of school counselors across the country through our independent study program. The independent study program allows students who...
Today’s Anniversary: Facebook
It’s February 4, and Facebook was founded on this date in 2004. This is the perfect time to remind you that American School has a Facebook page. It is our only active social media page, and it is the place where we sometimes post information about last-minute...
Groundhog Day 2025
It’s February 3, and yesterday was Groundhog Day. We can report that the American School Groundhog saw its shadow, which means we might be in store for six more weeks of winter. No matter the season, it’s always a great time of year to enroll and become an American...
New Year’s Resolutions
It’s January 31, which means we are one month into 2025. It’s a good time to think about the New Year’s resolutions we made one month ago. How many of them are still valid? How many of them have already been broken? How many of them have been forgotten about? If...
Testimonial Thursday
It’s a Thursday, so it’s time for our first Testimonial Thursday of 2025. Edgar from Illinois writes, “When I first received my materials, I thought it would be difficult to understand what to do. Then I started to read the instructions and learning at home became...
Today’s Anniversary: Kansas
It’s January 29, and Kansas became a state on this date in 1861. Kansas is known as the Sunflower State and so today is a good day to highlight our biology courses. We offer a Biology (non-lab) course among our high school correspondence courses and a Biology with...
Today’s Anniversary: Pride and Prejudice
It’s January 28, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published in the United Kingdom on this date in 1813. More than 200 years later, this classic novel has been read by students and adults all over the world, including those who enroll in our Literature 4:...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025
It’s January 27, and today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this date in 1945 Allied forces participated in the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp which helped bring about the end of the Holocaust and World War II. American School has a...
Today’s Anniversary: The California Gold Rush
It’s January 24, and the California Gold Rush began on this date in 1848. James Marshall found gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California and soon thereafter more than 300,000 people traveled west to see if they could strike gold of their own. Today’s anniversary...
Today’s Birthday: John Hancock
It’s January 23, and John Hancock was born on this date in 1737. His signature is the most prominent on the Declaration of Independence and so today’s blog is going to talk about handwriting. We know that many students take our online middle school courses or online...