Dillon County, South Carolina is a poor rural community located along interstate 95, about 70 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach. In Dillon County, roughly two-thirds of students are African-American, one-third are white and 90 percent are low-income.
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National Center for Research on Rural Education will assemble researchers, practitioners and policymakers from across the country to discuss the factors influencing rural K-12 students' academic success at a conference to be held April 3–4, 2013, in Omaha.