True North Radio This Week

Here's the lineup for True North Radio for JAN. 31 - FEB. 4, 2005:

Monday: JIM BEERS, who retired from the US Fish and Wildlife Service after a 30-year career as a wildlife biologist, wetlands biologist, special agent, and refuge manager. Jim was a Congressional Fellow in Washington D.C., and held the high position of Chief of Operations for the National Wildlife Refuge System. He was, for seven years, the wildlife biologist in the National Wildlife Refuge System’s Central Office. During the Clinton Administration, Jim exposed $45 million of government-agency abuses done in collusion with animal rights and environmental organizations. (You can read his Congressional testimony online.) Jim was rewarded for exposing corruption by being sent home and given no work assignments. After 9 months, Jim accepted a cash settlement and retired. He then began writing columns and has become a much sought-after speaker on property rights. You can read some of Jim’s columns in Outdoors Magazine, and others on the Internet.

Tuesday: COL. GORDON CUCULLU, military analyst for FoxNews and for New York's WABC-TV and WABC-radio. Gordon is the author of Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin. Check out Gordon's beautiful and content-rich website.

Wednesday: PAUL DRIESSEN, author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death. A former member of the Sierra Club and Zero Population Growth, Paul abandoned the environmental movement when it become intolerant in its views, inflexible in its demands, unwilling to recognize our tremendous strides in protecting the environment, and insensitive to the needs of billions of people who lack food, electricity, safe water, healthcare and other basic necessities that we take for granted. Paul is a Senior Fellow with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. He is also a fellow of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, both nonprofit institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. We'll be talking about Genetically Engineered Foods & other controversial topics.

Thursday: BILL SAYRE, formerly with the U.S. Federal Reserve, now a Member of the Board of Directors of Associated Industries of Vermont; of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce; and of the Vermont Forest Products Association. A student of Milton Friedman's (among other Nobel Laureates), Bill received his MBA in economics/finance from the University of Chicago.

Friday: LUCIEN ELLINGTON, who has advanced degrees in history, economics education, and education, holds the distinguished position at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, of UTC Foundation Professor of Education. Formerly Associate Director of the UT-Chattanooga’s Center for Economic Education, Lucien is now Co-Director of the university’s Asia Program, and is regional coordinator for the Freeman Foundation-funded National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. Lucien has also been recognized as an expert in education by the Foreign Policy Research Institute, who named him a Marvin Wachman Senior Fellow . Lucien is the author of three books about Japan, and edits the journal Education About Asia, which is read by middle, high school, and university educators He has served as a consultant for over 100 teacher institutes on Japan throughout the United States and has directed eleven study tours of Japan for schoolteachers. He now teaches and supervises courses on the histories of China, Japan, and the Koreas for educators in three southern states.

But that’s not why he’s here. Lucien is active in history and social science education reform. He is one of the co-authors of the famous Fordham Foundation Study, Where Did Social Studies Go Wrong? That’s the question we’ll ask--and answer--on Friday's show.

Lucien understands well the challenges of teaching high school, having himself been a high school history and economics teacher for eight years.

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