i respect you digging up some graphs and laying down an argument but, let's address a few things here:

male graduation rates are much lower compared to women as a whole--regardless of race. believe it or not, there is talk now of creating resources to keep men in college--again--regardless of race. anyway, your graphs show 13% and 8% growth, respectively, over the course of 16 years. not too bad. noting the hiccup in-between there can be attributed to a number of things: the dot-com bubble, the wars in afgahnistan and iraq, etc. saying it fell for a few years, but ultimately made gains, doesn't really mean anything. also, graduation rates have not gone through the roof. the universal drop-out rate is around 50% and only 33% of millennials have a BA.

as for your graph on test scores, this comes down to opportunity and resources. more often, asians and whites live in higher-priced areas that in turn, lead to higher funded secondary schools. having a more rigorous high school curriculum and SAT prep options are most certainly an advantage. what's most fascinating about this is that blacks and latinos are well aware of how their "people" score on these exams. in a recent study, when blacks and latinos were told they were taking a college entrance exam, they received similar scores to the ones evidenced by your chart. however, when told it was an ordinary test, the kids kicked ass at it. this has become known as "stereotype threat." many people are getting funded a lot of money to figure out how to dismantle this phenomena.

also, your point about, what black children are learning in [secondary] school. i mentioned earlier about inequitable resources. that's a real problem. but what i believe to be a bigger problem are the teachers. not in that they're not qualified, but that black students have trouble identifying with them. black teachers are few and far between. too little of them teach in heavily populated black areas, and most of them are women. of all black teachers, only 2% of them are men. while not grounded in any kind of data, i personally think a black kid in oakland would be more engaged if he was taught by a TFA black guy than a TFA white dude.

all ground was made up in the mid 80s.

i see how you were trying to make a cogent argument with that. but that statement is wrong in a lot of ways. i really respect you taking time to argue with me in a polite way.