American School Completes Annual Employee Reviews

American School leadership recently completed annual reviews of every employee.  The reviews are an opportunity for employees, supervisors and School leadership to assess job performances and make plans to help employees serve students, guarantors and school officials...

Boss’s Day 2025

It’s October 16, and today is Boss’s Day.  It’s a good chance to recognize American School’s presidents, the first of whom was R.T. Miller.  He founded American School in 1897, and more than 125 years later, his successors have adapted to the changing times to...

Today’s Anniversary: The Gregorian Calendar

It’s October 15, and the Gregorian Calendar began being adopted on this day in 1582.  Back then there were many different calendars, but Pope Gregory XIII helped clarify things by introducing the calendar that bears his name.  Because people had different...

Today’s Anniversary: Jim Hines Breaks the 10-Second Barrier

It’s October 14, and on this day in 1968 Jim Hines became the first man to run the 100-meter dash in less than 10 seconds.  This anniversary got us thinking about how quickly our students work in their accredited middle school courses or accredited high school...

American School Closed Monday, October 13, 2025

American School will be closed on Monday, October 13.  We will reopen with regular business hours on Tuesday, October 14, and look forward to assisting you with your accredited middle school program, accredited high school program or independent study program at that...

Today’s Anniversary: The Hangul Alphabet

It’s October 9, and the Hangul alphabet was published for the first time on this day in 1446.  Nearly 600 years later, it’s the modern writing system of the Korean language, and so today’s blog is going to talk about our Korean 1 course.  It’s one of many online high...