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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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., arrives to a news conference on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. MTG’s metamorphosis isn’t all that rare. It’s just more in our face, writes guest contributor Brian Robinson. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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