Today’s Birthday: Leonardo da Vinci

It’s April 15, and Leonardo da Vinci was born on this date in 1452.  You might know him best as the painter of Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Vitruvian Man, but Leonardo da Vinci had many other interests besides painting and sculpting.  He was interested in science...

Today’s Birthday: Anne Sullivan

It’s April 14, and Anne Sullivan was born on this date in 1866.  Many of you may not be familiar with her name, but perhaps you have heard of Helen Keller.  Helen Keller was an author and advocate who was deaf and blind for nearly her entire life, and Anne Sullivan...

Today’s Anniversary: The Two-Dollar Bill

It’s April 13, and on this date in 1976, the two-dollar bill was reintroduced into circulation.  You’re probably far more familiar with $1 bills, $5 bills, $10 bills, $20 bills, $50 bills and $100 bills, but $2 bills are still around even if they are rarely seen.  If...

PayPal Added to Web Site Checkout Page

As you know, we debuted a new web site on February 1.  We have received many compliments about our new site, and we are appreciative of all of them.  At the same time, we can always tweak the new site and make it better and more user-friendly.  One of the ways we did...

Email Addresses for Independent Study Students

Today’s blog is about email addresses for students in our independent study high school program.  If you are taking independent study courses with us while attending a traditional high school, please make sure you provide us with an email address that allows messages...

Testimonial Thursday

It’s Thursday, and so we have another testimonial from one of our students.  Mateusz from Illinois writes, “American School was a great choice for me because I finished my senior year with 23.5 credits.  It was a good opportunity to take correspondence study because I...