The Nation's Report Card[TM]: Reading 2007. National Assessment of Educational Progress at Grades 4 and 8. NCES 2007-496.

By J. Lee, W. Grigg, P. Donahue. 2007

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Increasing Elementary-aged Students’ Reading Fluency with Small-group Interventions: A Comparison of Repeated Reading, Listening Passage Preview, and Listening Only Strategies (2009, background): “Yet, in spite of the advances in knowledge about effective reading instruction, a large number of US students still experience great difficulties learning to read (Lee et al. 2007).”
Adolescent struggling readers in urban schools: Results of a Latent Class Analysis (2011, background): “The reading achievement scores for adolescents who struggle with learning have remained virtually unchanged for the last 30 years with 70% of the students at the basic or below basic level and unable to understand complex material written at grade level (Lee et al., 2007).”
Enhancing Social Studies Vocabulary and Comprehension for Seventh-Grade English Language Learners: Findings From Two Experimental Studies (2009, background): “…4% of eighth-grade ELLs scored at or above the proficient level on national achievement tests in reading compared with 31% of native English speakers in 2007 (Lee et al., 2007), and the graduation rate of ELLs is far lower than their native English-speaking peers (Laird, DeBell, & Chapman, 2006).”