Transform Barbershop Visits
Into Powerful Reading Moments

When boys identify as readers, they read for fun—and do better in school and in life.

  • In 2024, only 31% of U.S. fourth-graders scored at or above the NAEP Proficient level in reading. Fewer than 1 in 5 Black fourth grader students (less than 20%) read proficiency.
  • Only 39% of nine-year-olds reported reading for fun almost every day in 2022 — down from 42% in 2020 and 53% in 1984.

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Barbershop Books
Attn: Development Department
8 W 126th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10027

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