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Jennifer Keys Adair, Ph.D.

Jennifer Keys Adair, Ph.D., is a professor of early childhood education at The University of Texas at Austin, a young scholar fellow with the Foundation for Child Development and a public voices fellow with The OpEd Project.

Jennifer Keys's Latest Articles

Top Teachers Required for All Our Small Children

By Joanna Englehardt, Jennifer Keys Adair, Ph.D. & Por Alison Bowen ● Employment ● April 8, 2015

Lower-income child care centers have caregivers who in addition to caring for the children are also required to be the janitors. As elite pre-K programs know, that’s inappropriate for students who are building neurological connections at a rate of 700 to 1,000 every second.