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...Viagra alone; the other group got Viagra along with sex therapy. After four weeks, just one of the Viagra-only couples did well enough (on standardized gauges of erectile functioning and sexual satisfaction) to stop treatment, and six dropped out. Two of the combination group graduated, with only one dropout. In the second stage, the remaining participants of both groups were given Viagra-plus-therapy treatment for four weeks. Throughout, all couples were urged to have sex both with and without the drug. At the end of the study, 64% of the men and 66% of their partners reported satisfactory...
Over the same period, the average SAT score has risen 61 points, with an 18% reduction in the disparity between minority and nonminority scores. The dropout rate is down from 11% in 1995 to 3% today. Even extracurricular pursuits are reaching new heights: the choir just hauled home a crystal trophy from a national competition, and a new robotics club placed well in its first outing...
...sweat of former dropout Ernest Chavez, 17, hunched over a computer, intent on making up enough courses to graduate with his class. It's there when Sergeant Jose Campos, 62, who has been teaching Junior ROTC for 24 years, brags that this year he has "87 young ladies in my program"--the most ever. And you hear it in the school's mariachi band, practicing before sunrise. A visit to Louis W. Fox Academic and Technical High School in San Antonio, Texas, shows how far the school has come. Just five years ago, it was the worst school in Texas...
...results have been dramatic. This year 92% of Fox Tech students passed the state's math exam--the best performance in the district. The dropout rate--15% in 1995--is down to 4%. The old Fox Tech literally smelled from garbage left to rot in corners and from homeless men who used the fountain as a toilet. Now the school is spotless. Open house, which used to draw perhaps 60 parents, regularly attracts 600--spurred, no doubt, by Cockrell's having dispatched faculty to knock on doors...
...their core academic work at the academy, but it would be tailored to their areas of specialization. In a comprehensive long-term study of these academies, the Manpower Demonstration Research Corp. recently found that the programs were especially beneficial to underperforming students. One key benefit was reducing the dropout rate...