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Happy editing! Ninney (talk) 19:36, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I believe the information I included about competitive tests should be restored, perhaps with independent review to remove any of my unintentional bias. Yes, I am an employee of McGraw-Hill Education, but my intent is to inform readers about a historic shift in the role of the GED test among national tests, not "introduce promotional material". I believe it is important for readers to know these two facts:

FACT #1 - The 2014 GED was developed in sole partnership with Pearson. Previous versions of the GED were distributed by multiple education companies, including Pearson, McGraw-Hill Education, and Education Testing Service.

FACT #2 - Two major vendors have recently developed tests as competition to the 2014 GED, to address needs that were fulfilled primarily by past versions of the GED.

These changes have been widely discussed in the media, and independent confirmation is readily available. For example, here's an article I found with a Google search for the phrase "GED competition": http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/16/ged-faces-competition-states-weigh-two-new-entrants

Had I intended bias with Fact #1, I might have expressed an opinion that use of a single vendor discourages use of competitive products, and increases student costs. For Fact #2, I might have avoided mentioning the HiSET - since it is from Education Testing Service, not McGraw-Hill Education - or promoted the TASC - which is from McGraw-Hill Education. Instead, I chose to state the facts as simply as possible within the natural flow of the existing article, with uniform references and links to test and vendor pages for all three competitive tests. I believe that the original article included significant bias towards Pearson, acting as a marketing piece for them, rather than presenting these new facts.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Kilo Weson (talk • contribs) 2014-01-10T02:34:32

July 2015

Hello, I'm Crystallizedcarbon. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to TAM— because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 15:50, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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