Its mission is to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business and economics in order to improve the quality of their lives. JA offers a comprehensive K-12 curriculum that focuses on business, the economy, and showing children the relevance of education to the workplace. Over 75,000 area youth participate from a 38-county region. As part of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's community relations program, a personal finance curriculum was developed and is being taught to middle-school students. This web page shares the course's objectives and provides other resources on financial literacy.
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Economics Resources for K-12 Teachers Web resources in economics from the Economic Education Web at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Junior Achievement Junior Achievement currently reaches more than 3.5 million students across America through programs in grades K-12. JA's ultimate mission is to ensure that every child in America has a fundamental understanding of the free enterprise system so that they are prepared to meet the challenges of the global economy. A nonprofit partnership, founded in 1949, of leaders in education, business and labor devoted to helping youngsters learn to think, to choose and to function in a changing global economy. It is the premier source of teacher training and materials for economics for grades kindergarten through twelve.