---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001185185-24-000669"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EDUC"
cik: "0000031667"
company_name: "EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP"
filed_at: "2024-07-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T00:16:15.138704+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Educational Development Corp appoints Dr. Amy Emerson to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Dr. Amy Emerson, a pediatrician and advocate for early literacy, appointed as Class II Director.
- She will serve on Audit, Compensation and Governance Committees.
- Appointment effective June 28, 2024; included in 2025 proxy ballot.
- Emerson serves on Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs board and supports Reach Out & Read and Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001185185-24-000669
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EDUC
- cik: 0000031667
- company_name: EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP
- filed_at: 2024-07-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31667/000118518524000669/0001185185-24-000669-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31667/000118518524000669/edc20240701_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-24-000669
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-24-000669.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001185185-24-000669.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Amy Emerson was appointed as Class II Director at EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: On June 28, 2024 the Board of Directors of the Company unanimously approved adding Dr. Amy Emerson to the Company’s Board of Directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31667/000118518524000669/0001185185-24-000669-index.htm

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