Learning Business Skills Through Junior Achievement

Learning Business Skills Through Junior Achievement
Volunteers with J.A. help students around the world understand real-life economics. Transcript of radio broadcast:
17 July 2008

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.

Junior Achievement is an international movement to educate young people about business and economics. The purpose is to help them prepare to succeed in a world economy.

The organization is the largest of its kind. JA Worldwide says it reaches over eight million students each year in more than one hundred countries. Programs begin in elementary school and continue through middle and high school. The education is based on the ideas of market-based economics and entrepreneurship.

Junior Achievement began in nineteen nineteen in Springfield, Massachusetts. Two business leaders, Horace Moses and Theodore Vail, joined with Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts to start it.

For more than fifty years, Junior Achievement programs met after school. They began as a group of business clubs. The organization started with a small number of children ages ten to twelve.

But in nineteen seventy-five, Junior Achievement began to offer classes during school hours. Many more young people joined the organization once it began to teach business skills as part of the school day.

Volunteers from the community teach about businesses, how they are organized, and how products are made and sold. They also teach about the American and world economies and about industry and trade.

The Junior Achievement Company Program teaches young people how entrepreneurship works. They learn about business by operating their own companies.

The students develop a product and sell shares in their company. They use the money to buy the materials they need to make their product, which then they sell. Finally, they return the profits to the people who bought shares in the company.

Junior Achievement says two hundred eighty-seven thousand volunteers support its programs around the world. In the United States alone, there are more than twenty-two thousand places that hold Junior Achievement events.

Junior Achievement Incorporated and Junior Achievement International combined their operations in two thousand four. They formed Junior Achievement Worldwide. Its headquarters are in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Shelley Gollust and Mario Ritter. Transcripts and archives of our reports are at voaspecialenglish.com along with a link to the Junior Achievement Web site, ja.org. I'm Faith Lapidus.

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学习业务技能，通过初级的成就
志愿者与j.a.帮助世界各地的学生了解现实生活中的经济学。全文电台广播：
2008年7月17日

这是美国之音特别英语经济学报告。

初中的成就是一项国际运动，以教育年轻人了解商学与经济学。目的是帮助他们准备要取得成功，在世界经济中。

该组织是世界上最大的同类。司法机构政务长说，全球达到超过800万学生，每年在超过100个国家。程序开始在小学，并继续通过初中，高中。教育是基础上，构思以市场为基础的经济学和创业精神。

初中开始实现在1919年在斯普林菲尔德，马萨诸塞州。 2商界领袖，贺拉斯摩西和西奥多vail ，加入与参议员默里起重机马萨诸塞州启动它。

以上的五十年，初中，实现节目后，会见了学校。他们开始作为一个集团的商业俱乐部。该组织开始与少数岁儿童的11点50分。

但在1975年，初中成绩开始提供班在上课时间。许多更多的年轻人加入了该组织一旦开始，教导商业技能的一部分，学校的一天。

志愿者从社区，教导有关的企业，它们是如何组织，如何产品生产并销售。他们还教导有关美国和世界经济及关于工业和贸易。

初中实现公司的计划，教导年轻的人如何创业工程。他们了解业务经营自己的公司。

学生发展的产品和出售股票，在他们的公司。他们利用这笔钱购买材料，他们需要使他们的产品，然后出售。最后，他们返回的利润，向人民负责谁买本公司股份。

初中的成就说， 28.7万志愿人员支持其节目在世界各地。仅在美国，有超过22000的地方举行初中成就的活动。

初中实现注册和初中实现国际联合行动，他们在2000 4 。他们形成了初级的成就全世界。其总部设在科罗拉多斯普林斯，科罗拉多州。

这是该美国之音特别英语经济学的报告，书面，由雪莱gollust和Mario里特尔。誊本和档案我们的报告是在voaspecialenglish.com随着一个连接到初中的成就网站， ja.org 。我真诚地拉皮迪。