High School Elementary Middle Grades High School Curriculum Impact High School Program Junior Achievement's High School Program is the capstone experience for students. It provides students with the opportunity to apply book learning to real-life situations and to build knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become active and productive citizens.
Every program invites a businessperson to come into the classroom and present activities.
The businessperson, or consultant, enriches the students' learning with their own experiences in business and in life. The High School Program will help students learn about basic economic concepts, the principles of managing a business, leadership and employability skills. Research shows that Junior Achievement students outperform traditional economics students in all four major areas of the Test of Economic Literacy. On student understanding of fundamental economic concepts, JA students had increases twice as great as the traditional students. David Vande Panne, teacher, Cedar Springs High School JA Economics JA Economics is a one semester course that provides students with an understanding of the U.S. economic system and helps prepare them for productive roles in the workplace.