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@ThePlatypusofDoom:

Hi,

I work with Alison from EDC and had some additional edits and citations for the article. Most are just clean ups, with one additional line added in. I laid out what the article should look like with the corrections below. thank you! ______________________________________________________

There appears to be two typos in the 2nd sentence of the second paragraph: please delete the extra parenthese at the start of the sentence, and the extra period at the end of the sentence.

Jerrold Zacharias should be a link to his Wikipedia profile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrold_R._Zacharias

Physical Science Study Committee should be a link to its Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Science_Study_Committee

Citations 2, 4, 5 are incorrectly attributed. Citation 2 (reflecting Sputnik) should appear after Man: A Course of Study in the previous sentence; citation 4 (Chronicle of Philanthropy link) should be moved and appear with citation 6 at the end of the sentence that begins "For instance, during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia..."; Citation 5 should point to PSSC: 50 Years Later not the current item listed

The organization manages the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and serves as secretariat of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention.[1]

_________________________________________________ With all the corrections, the article should read like:

Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) is a nonprofit research and development organization[1] with headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts, and offices in Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, and other locations in the United States and around the world. EDC has 1,400 employees who develop and implement programs in education, health, and international development.

EDC is known for creating the curriculum <link>Man: A Course of Study</link>.[2] The organization was founded (as Educational Services, Inc.) by <link>Jerrold Zacharias</link>, who started the <link>Physical Science Study Committee</link>, credited with changing physics education in the United States.[3][5] In a number of countries, EDC uses technology, most notably radio, to provide educational opportunities for hard to reach learners. For instance, during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, EDC and its partners used radio to provide lessons to students whose schools were closed due to the disease.[4][6] Research conducted by EDC on teen smoking, has been cited by numerous communities and states as they consider raising the age to purchase tobacco to 21.[7][8] The organization manages the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and serves as secretariat of the <link>National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention</link>.[9]

Ejmarshall39 (talk) 00:48, 17 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Wow... Massive Wall of text. Okay, I'll put the links in. Remember, this isn't your page, you do not have control over how it looks. ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 00:50, 17 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

@ThePlatypusofDoom:

Thank you, understand don't have full control, just wanted to make sure everything was cited properly

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Please disclose your paid editing according to WP:PAID. Thank you. ThePlatypusofDoom (Talk) 00:55, 17 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

Employee of EDC