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James Gallagher, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist Emeritus
james_gallagher@unc.edu
PH: 919.966.6157
FAX: 919.962.7328
Mailing Address:
Campus Box 8040
The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8040
James J. Gallagher, Ph.D., is senior scientist emeritus and former director of FPG Child Development Institute. He has been with FPG since 1970. Gallagher is an internationally recognized early childhood development expert.
Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Gallagher served on Governor James B. Hunt’s planning team to develop the North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics—the first residential school of its kind focusing on talented students in science and mathematics at the secondary level. It has since been emulated in a number of states and countries. Dr. Gallagher also was instrumental in updating state law and regulation to better serve gifted students in North Carolina.
Prior to joining FPG, Dr. Gallagher he was the first Chief of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped in the then U.S. Office of Education. He oversaw a wide range of new legislation representing the first major thrust by the federal government to help children with disabilities. The Bureau was the leader in helping to implement laws that provided funds for research, personnel preparation, technical assistance, regional resources centers, centers for media development, and state grants to help with the education of children with disabilities. He was promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning, Research, and Evaluation during the tenure of Commissioner Jim Allen.
Dr. Gallagher also served as the assistant director of the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. While there he was one of the architects of a far reaching program to rewrite the laws concerning the education of gifted students in Illinois.
Dr. Gallagher has produced over two hundred articles in a wide range of professional journals as well as a number of book chapters, editorship of books and books.
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