"SAT scores slip as gap widens for minorities"

From today's WSJ:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125121641858657345.html

The article notes that results are "discouraging in light of a more than 25-year effort to improve U.S. education" and that gains on state tests often are not reflected on national tests.

However, it also notes that a record number of students took the exam and that while in 1999 only 29% of test takers were minority students, in 2009 40% were minorities.

For a meaningful measure of progress or lack of progress, it would seem that adjustments should be made to reflect factors such as the percentage of test takers from low income families.