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Article: Programs help professionals make transition to teaching. Special Report.(Cleveland, Ohio)
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- Crain's Cleveland Business
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- October 21, 2002
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Byline: EILEEN BEAL
Two years ago Mike Sack was heading up a marketing department for PPG Industries in Strongsville. Today, the 51-year-old Medina resident is a first-year teacher of ninth- and tenth-grade social studies at Strongsville High School.
``In marketing, when you get to be 50ish you are kind of old, and I'd always wanted to teach,'' he said.
But Mr. Sack didn't leap blindly into his new career. He checked out the local job market, investigated the fast-track-into-the-classroom programs located at area colleges and decided the program at Ursuline College fit his needs, ``despite the fact that it was quite a hike from Medina to Pepper ...