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Parents urge district to return to full-time learning By Tabi Jozwick Voice Correspondent MACOMB — Parents and some students in the Macomb CUSD 185 district are urging the district to return to full-time learning. During Monday’s meeting, Macomb Superintendent Patrick M. Twomey told the Macomb CUSD 185 Board of Education that he wanted to wait until the Illinois Department of Public Health gave its ok before Macomb’s students returned to school full-time. However, parents did not feel the same. During the public comments section of the meeting, Emily Roberts spoke in favor of having st...

Remote learning changing the face of teacher education Tabi Jozwick Voice Correspondent MACOMB — When Governor J.B. Pritzker ordered all Illinois schools into remote learning back in March, Western Illinois University’s School of Education director Eric Sheffield said his reaction was one of disappointment. “I was initially very disappointed because being a teacher for a long time, I know the best kind of teaching happens, particularly when you're working with future teachers in person in a classroom where you can interact with them, socially and kind of pick-up cues from them while you...