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Your students leave with proof.
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Help students build real-world skills and earn industry-recognized credentials that demonstrate what they know and what they can do.
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Connect with a Career Ready specialist
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Built for the pathway you teach
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From first skill to first job
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One connected journey
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You teach students a skill, help them prove it through a recognized credential, and prepare them for real work. That's the promise of CTE. Pearson supports every step with courseware aligned to industry-recognized credentials, from the first day of instruction to certification and beyond.
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Built for the way CTE is taught
Supporting every step from skill to credential
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Credential-aligned content
Teach with confidence using courseware aligned to industry-recognized certifications, helping instruction, practice, and assessment work together.
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Up-to-date content
Keep pace with changing industry standards through regularly updated content, hands-on activities, and simulations that help students build real-world skills.
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Career Ready pathways
Connect learning to future opportunities through pathways that help students explore careers, build skills, and earn credentials that matter.
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Support for educators
Access professional learning, implementation resources, and certification support designed to help you stay current in your field and succeed in the classroom.
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Find courseware for your program
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Browse Pearson Career Ready solutions designed for the pathways you teach, including skilled trades, IT, healthcare, business, and other high-demand career fields.
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NCCERconnect for trades
Online courseware aligned to National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) curriculum, helping students build the knowledge and skills needed to earn NCCER credentials in construction and the skilled trades.
Explore NCCERconnect for trades
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CertPREP IT courseware
Prepare students for industry-recognized IT certifications with CertPREP courseware and practice tests aligned to leading technology pathways. Interactive learning experiences help students build knowledge, reinforce skills, and prepare for certification success.
Explore CertPREP IT courseware
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Certiport IT certifications
Certiport delivers industry-recognized certification exams from leading technology providers, helping students validate their skills and demonstrate career readiness. Explore available certification pathways, exam information, and credential opportunities.
Explore Certiport certifications
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Healthcare CTE courseware
Courseware for one of the largest CTE program areas, covering allied health and healthcare foundations.
Explore healthcare CTE courseware
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JobMatch for career relevance
JobMatch shows students how a major connects to real roles, salary ranges, and growth outlook, so you can tie coursework to a clear destination.
See how JobMatch connects to careers
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English skills for workforce readiness
We build English skills that directly transfer to the workplace: Support every learner's journey to access further opportunities
See how ELL connects to careers
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Where do you teach?
Career and technical education spans dozens of pathways, each with its own credentials, tools, and workforce needs. Explore a few of the most common teaching areas below, then browse additional pathways to find the Pearson solutions that fit your classroom or lab.
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Skilled trades
Construction & trades
Prepare students for NCCER credentials with NCCERconnect courseware designed for construction, electrical, welding, and the skilled trades.
IT certification
Information technology
Prepare students for Microsoft, AWS, CompTIA, and Cisco certifications with CertPREP courseware, backed by Certiport testing.
Healthcare
Allied health
Support healthcare CTE pathways with courseware for healthcare foundations and allied health roles that students can build a career on.
Advanced manufacturing
Business & manufacturing
Connect business and advanced manufacturing coursework to recognized credentials and career pathways your students can prove to employers.
Questions instructors ask
Explore answers to what working CTE faculty want to know before they partner with Pearson.
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Which certifications does the courseware map to?
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CertPREP courseware prepares students for IT certification families including Microsoft, AWS, CompTIA, and Cisco, and NCCERconnect maps to NCCER credentials in the skilled trades. The complete, current list of supported certifications is confirmed with the product teams before publish. Pearson builds the prep courseware; the credentials belong to Microsoft, AWS, CompTIA, Cisco, and NCCER.
How current is the content I would teach from?
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Industry standards move fast, and IT moves fastest of all. Pearson refreshes courseware as certification objectives and trade standards shift, so your students study against what an exam covers now, not a version two releases back. Update cadence varies by product, and the product teams confirm the schedule for each one.
What lab and simulation options exist without expensive equipment?
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You can give students hands-on practice without equipping every bench. Lab simulations and practice environments let students work on real tools and systems on a device with a browser, which matters most in IT and in trades where shop time is limited. Specific simulation coverage by product is confirmed with the product teams.
Is there professional development for my own credentialing?
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Yes. Pearson offers professional development that helps you stay current in your field and keep your own industry certifications fresh while you teach. Many CTE instructors come from industry and want to maintain the credentials they earned on the job, and we build support around that. The specific professional development catalog for faculty is confirmed with the product team.
Where to go next
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The Pearson Career Ready pillars support every stage of the student journey, from building skills and earning credentials to preparing for career opportunities. Each one is designed around the way you teach.
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Plan for the future
Help students discover careers and CTE pathways that match their interests, strengths, and goals before choosing a direction.
Guide students through career exploration
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Build skills
Help students develop job-ready skills through credential-aligned courseware, hands-on labs, and current industry content designed for the pathways you teach.
Connect classroom learning to the skills employers value
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Prove & connect
Help students prove what they know through recognized credentials and showcase those achievements to employers through digital badging and workforce connections.
Link earned credentials to real career opportunities
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