From the beginning of an AP article on minority test scores.

Minorities -- who historically haven't fared as well as whites in testing -- make up the vast majority of students whose scores are being excluded, AP found. And the numbers have been rising.

How should that opening phrase read? "Black and Latino students -- who historically haven't fared as well as whites *and Asians* in testing..."

When it comes to reporting on public schools and education, the press almost always leaves out the high (usually higher than whites) performance of Asians. Apparently, because Asian students do well, and the stories' pre-determined theme is that minorities struggle, Asians' accomplishments are therefore unimportant or simply folded into white students'. This has always struck me as a sort of benign racism.

Anyway, way, way down in the story they finally mention Asian performance, but it's very unclear, and seems to reflect that even the statisticians don't do a very good job of reconciling high Asian scores with other minority scores.