Penn Foster Group

Penn Foster Group is a portfolio of online education and training companies, including Penn Foster High School, Penn Foster Career School, Penn Foster College, CareerStep, Ashworth College, James Madison High School, and specialized learning platforms. It provides flexible, self-paced, accredited programs and career training designed to build real-world skills, support workforce development, and improve economic mobility. Its history traces to Thomas Foster’s distance-education initiative for coal miners in 1890.