Career Academies are "schools-within-schools" organized around career themes.  They integrate academic, career, and technical instruction to prepare studnts for postsecondary education and employment.  Teachers and students integrate academic and occupation-related classes as a way to enhance real-world relevance and maintain high academic standards.  Partnerships with local employers provide mentors, internships, and program planning guidance.  Career academies place mephasis on building relationships between students and adults, both teachers and work-site supervisors.  Constructive relationships are fostered by grouping students together each year to take core courses with the same group of teachers, thus increasing the support students receive.

Pearl-Cohn currently has two career academies in place.  Within these academies are pathways (specializations).  Below are the academies, their pathways, and the courses required to complete each program.

ACADEMY - Urban Education and Human Services
    Pathway - Early Childhood Education
        Courses -

9th - Family and Consumer Sciences	10th - Early Childhood  Ed. Careers I
11th - Early Childhood Ed. Careers II	12th - Early Childhood Ed. Careers III

    Pathway - Cosmetology
        Courses -

9th - Career Management Success	10th - Principles of Cosmetology
11th - Design Principles of Cosmetology	12th - Chemistry of Cosmetology

    Pathway - Culinary Arts
        Courses -

9th - Career Management Success	10th - Culinary Arts I
11th - Culinary Arts II	12th - Culinary Arts III

ACADEMY - Academy of Finance
    Pathway - Business Management
        Courses -

9th - Financial Planning	10th - Accounting I
11th - Business Management	12th - Virtual Enterprise

    Pathway - Banking and Finance
        Courses -

9th - Career Management Success	10th - Accounting I
11th - Financial Planning	12th - Banking and Finance