Self-employed Author, Columnist, Lecturer/Speaker
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Author, Columnist, Lecturer/Speaker at Self-employed
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- Writer at U.S. Department of Justice
- Speechwriter at Voice of America
- Speechwriter at Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution
- Speechwriter at National Council for Better Education
- Teacher at Clear Creek School District
- NASA Documentation contractor at Kentron International, Inc.
- Education
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- University of Houston
- University of California, Irvine
- Texas Tech University
- Maret School
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Beverly Eakman’s Summary
Beverly Eakman is a former teacher and the author of four books on education policy, including Walking Targets: How Our Psychologized Classrooms Are Producing a Nation of Sitting Ducks (2007), and the international award-winning classic, Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education (1998). Her initial best-seller, Educating for the New World Order (1991) was the first to expose federal and state complicity in accumulating psychological information on children under the cover of academic testing and placing it in non-secure, cross-matchable databanks—an activity that was finally acknowledged as “data-mining” after Sept. 11, 2001. In Microchipped (1993), she expanded upon a theme some dismissed as “alarmist” at the time: predictive psychology and tracking technology, forecasting identity theft and a comprehensive national ID.
Based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Mrs. Eakman is a veteran of some 700 radio and TV talk shows. She served as Executive Director of the National Education Consortium, a think-tank specializing in education law. She has testified on education panels and lawsuits, one of which resulted in a surprise win for the plaintive in Florida and was written up in Chronicles Magazine under the title “Uncle Sam’s Classroom.” Mrs. Eakman’s workshops in “Countering Group Manipulation Tactics” resulted in demands for a manual of the same title.
In addition to her prolific work in education, Mrs. Eakman spent some 13 years in federal government: policy analyst and speech writer for high-profile federal agency heads, inc. a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a Director of Voice of America, and various officials in the U.S. Dept. of Justice. As editor-in-chief of NASA’s newspaper in the 1970s, she penned a feature article that was picked up by the popular press and turned into a film.
Mrs. Eakman's July 2008 speech was picked up by Vital Speeches of the Day and featured as Speech of the Month, Dec. 2008.
Beverly Eakman’s Specialties:
Areas of expertise: the psychologizing of education; threats to individual privacy (inc. political profiling; data-mining, tracking and trafficking; chip implant-IDs; predictive behavioral technology; and long-term monitoring).
Beverly Eakman’s Experience
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Author, Columnist, Lecturer/Speaker
Self-employed
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)
I am an established author (4 books, 2 awards) and lecturer with op-eds and feature articles in national publications. Based in the Nation's Capital, I retired from the Justice Department to devote full time to writing and speaking. My expertise involves (a) the psychologizing of education, and (b) threats to individual privacy rights — including political profiling, data-mining and -laundering, computerized cross-matching, monitoring and data-tracking. I was the first person (1994) to warn of human chip ID’s.
Prior to working for Justice, I was chief speechwriter for the Voice of America, for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (now deceased) and various ambassadors. I also served as editor-in-chief of NASA’s newspaper, where I penned a feature article that became a film.
I began as a secondary school teacher, a vocation which I escaped. But absurdities I noticed in former classrooms re-emerged 20 years later, as a speechwriter back in the Nation's Capital, where I grew up. -
Writer
U.S. Department of Justice
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Law Practice industry)
May 1991 — January 2003 (11 years 9 months)
Writing speeches, talking points and briefs, and performing original research, as appropriate; writing and/or rewriting reports, training/guidance manuals, fact sheets, monographs, legal briefs, needs assessments, implementation and strategic plans, letters and other documents, always ensuring consistency with policy and either Government Printing Office (GPO) or Chicago Manual of Style (MLA) standards. Accuracy and clarity of complex information were critical. Audiences have ranged from fellow professionals in their fields to lay persons.
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Speechwriter
Voice of America
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
November 1987 — June 1989 (1 year 8 months)
Chief speechwriter for the then-Director and Deputy Director.
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Speechwriter
Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution
(Government Administration industry)
August 1986 — November 1987 (1 year 4 months)
The "Bicentennial Commission," was established for a limited time by Congress in 1983, under the chairmanship of the late Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, for whom I wrote, to promote public awareness and understanding of the U.S. Constitution. My duties included penning speeches, talking points, articles and op-eds for the Chief Justice (now deceased), the Staff Director, the Commissioners and any government agency heads (or their representatives) asked to speak on the Founders or the founding documents.
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Speechwriter
National Council for Better Education
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)
February 1985 — August 1986 (1 year 7 months)
NCBE was a small, nonprofit organization researching education issues. Because of my dual background in education and journalistic/technical writing, I accepted this position temporarily upon returning to my native Washington, D.C. I served as writer-editor and speechwriter for the Director, penned brochures, fact sheets and monographs, and acquired my first taste of public speaking.
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Teacher
Clear Creek School District
(Education Management industry)
August 1980 — May 1981 (10 months)
I taught basic grammar, spelling and literature and progressed to creative writing, debate and rhetoric. I taught remedial through honors/"gifted" high school students. I wrote curriculums specially targeted to children with learning difficulties (a separate category for Special Education did not exist then) and to new Vietnamese immigrants, then thronging to Houston-area schools.
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NASA Documentation contractor
Kentron International, Inc.
(Writing and Editing industry)
December 1974 — June 1979 (4 years 7 months)
Kentron was the prime documentation contractor during the Skylab and Apollo projects and early Space Shuttle years in the 1970s. I began as an associate technical editor in 1974, having changed careers from education. I assumed progressively more challenging assignments until I became editor-in-chief and senior science writer of NASA's prestigious flagship publication, Roundup. The highlight of that career was one in-depth feature article on a boy born without an immune system, a rare genetic defect. I also covered, and reported on, all space science and program news developments for this bi-monthly publication.
Beverly Eakman’s Education
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University of Houston
Graduate , International Relations , 1982 — 1983
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University of California, Irvine
Graduate , Education , 1970 — 1972
Graduate Studies in Methodology
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Texas Tech University
B.S. Education , Educational Psychology, English, French , 1964 — 1968
- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Mu
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Maret School
N/A , K-12 curriculum , 1952 — 1961
Some of my dearest friends and memories are in this K-12 institution, so I wanted to include it.
Additional Information
Beverly Eakman’s Websites:
Beverly Eakman’s Interests:
education methodologies, privacy rights, political profiling, chip implants, data-mining, longitudinal data-tracking
Beverly Eakman’s Groups:
American Policy Center, Freedom21, Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Beverly Eakman’s Honors:
One national and two international human rights awards for my books (1995, 1999); Golden Whistle Award (1991, Michigan) for exposing psychological profiling in academic testing; Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Award (1975), NASA; Approach & Landing Test Award (1977) for contributions as editor-in-chief of NASA's newspaper; 4 speeches in Vital Speeches of the Day.
Beverly Eakman’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- new ventures
- expertise requests
- reference requests
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