by | Aug 7, 2025 | New Blog
American School will close at 12 noon on Friday, August 8, for a staff event. We will reopen with regular business hours on Monday, August 11. Thank you for your understanding and for making us your distance learning middle school or distance education high school. ...
by | Aug 6, 2025 | New Blog
It’s August 6, and Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel on this day in 1926. Back when we were first creating what would become our Writing 1 course we included a story about this very event, so whenever we think of Gertrude Ederle, we...
by | Aug 5, 2025 | New Blog
It’s August 5, and the first traffic light was installed in Cleveland, Ohio on this day in 1914. As you know, traffic lights usually have three colors: red for stop, yellow for caution and green for go. Those same three colors are seen by students taking our online...
by | Aug 4, 2025 | New Blog
It’s August 4, and mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. He is perhaps most famous for creating a certain type of diagram that bears his name, and you can find Venn diagrams in several of our advanced math courses, including Probability and...
by | Aug 1, 2025 | New Blog
It’s August 1, and Colorado became a state on this day in 1876. Colorado is known for its mountains, and sometimes you might feel like you’re climbing a mountain as you work to earn a high school diploma at home. American School can help! We allow students to work...
by | Jul 31, 2025 | New Blog
It’s Thursday, so let’s hear a testimonial from one of our students. Amanda from Michigan writes, “Whenever I need to make up a course, I know I can always depend on the American School to have the course I need because the American School has the most courses to...
