Atlanta Forward: Education

Colleges used to care more about getting students in the door than ushering them out four years later with a degree in hand. That has changed. I discuss how campuses are now measured by completion rates rather than enrollment. In a guest column, a local high school teacher worries about the distraction cellphones pose in the classroom. And readers sound off on a video of a DeKalb County middle school student pummeling a classmate.

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