%0 Journal Article
%T Washington View: Lessons from Benjamin Franklin
%A Maria Ferguson
%J Phi Delta Kappan
%@ 1940-6487
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0031721719841344
%X Historian Nick Bunker¡¯s Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity shows that young Franklin benefited from a childhood with an ambitious and loving family, access to educational opportunities, and free time to explore. Maria Ferguson considers how those lessons might apply to contemporary childhoods. From a policy perspective, Franklin¡¯s childhood depended on strong early childhood education, access to higher education, and social and emotional learning. In all three areas, positive steps are being made, although progress is slow
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0031721719841344