diplomas. these figures just out in a new study and josh levs is all over it for us. any chance we get to look at troubles for education in this country, a good thing we re doing that, this is our future. this is stark and says a lot about where things stand. this is from the schott foundation that pushes for equity schools and better schools in general. interesting title for their new study. they re calling it yes we can. let s get right to the numbers. i want you to see how stark the numbers are. first, they point to some states in which they say there is a major alarming gap in the achievement of black male students to white male students. a couple examples of the national problem. in nebraska, the black male graduation rate is 40%, and white male, twice that, 83%. in new york, black male 28%,