HIgh School PROGRAM Resources
High School Resources Overview
As high school students begin to position themselves for their future, there are many unanswered questions about what lies ahead. Junior Achievement’s high school resources help students make informed, intelligent decisions about their future and foster skills that will be highly useful in the business world.
FINANCIAL LITERACY
Junior Achievement programs teach students how to manage money, maintain a personal budget and be fiscally responsible through a fun, hands-on curriculum. We encourage you to explore and share the various resources we’ve gathered to help young people gain the knowledge and skills needed to take control of their economic success.
WORK & CAREER READINESS
Junior Achievement is part of the solution—enabling students with career planning skills, providing opportunities for career exploration and development of transferable soft skills, and encouraging students to pursue careers they might not have otherwise considered.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
JA provides resources that spark the entrepreneurial spirit and teach the practical day-to-day skills required to run a viable, long-term business. Give your teen(s) tools that teach about the mindset and the skills needed for success.
JA Economics
Now more than ever, with our economy in flux, it's important to understand the economic system that makes our country run and how it affects our quality of life. The COVID-19 pandemic has cracked open daily life as we know it in a way that allows us to see how an economy functions; economics provides explanations for what we are seeing. This site will help students understand the U.S. economy and how a crisis affects fundamental principles, including:
The content is based on JA Economics, a powerful economics textbook from Junior Achievement.