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LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Education,
finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers
and students of North Carolina — and the world.
Jim Barber
Director Emeritus
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Jim Barber
Director Emeritus
LEARN NC
140 Friday Center Drive CB #7216
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill,
NC,
27599-7216
Voice 919-962-8888
Fax 919-962-8940
Jim Barber was LEARN NC's Executive Director from 1999 through 2006. Prior to that from 1983 to 1999, he was first the Controller for the State Board of Education, then the Associate Superintendent for Financial and Personnel Services with the Department of Public Instruction.
Jim serves on the Boards of Directors of the North Carolina Public School Forum and the State Employees' Credit Union. He was a member of the Governor's Character Education Advisory Committee, the NC Partner's Leadership Council, and the E-Learning Commission, and is a principal investigator with the National Research Center for Rural Education Support.
A native of upstate New York, Jim graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Colgate University in 1968, and then served in the US Navy with the Supply Corps in Vietnam, and with the Naval Audit Service in Boston. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1974.