A recent national poll conducted by Junior Achievement (JA) and Deloitte indicates teens freely admit to unethical behavior today.
A few of the key findings:
80% of teens believe they can make ethical business decisions when they join the workforce, yet 38% think they have to break rules at school to succeed nearly half believe that lying [...]
Teens in Colorado and Wyoming can now find out about more than 100 different careers through a new virtual job shadow program launched today by Junior Achievement, DeVry University, and Career Corner Digital. The fast-paced, first-person videos take students behind the scenes at some of the world’s top companies, providing them with an inside look [...]
On December 5th and 6th, Mountain Range High School was home to more than just its average daily student population of nearly 1,000 eager 9th - 12th graders. The school hosted Governor Ritter’s statewide dropout summit, officially called the “Colorado Dropout Prevention, Retention and Recovery Summit.” Attendees included representatives from education, government, business and the [...]
I recently read an article in the Denver Post entitled “Money matters for youths” by Aldo Svaldi. In it, Svaldi talks about Vantage Point High School, a local high school that has embraced personal finance education, and is actually incorporating a personal finance course as a required class for graduation. The article continued on to discuss the importance of [...]