Clemson University’s National Dropout Prevention Center has entered into an agreement with the S.C. Department of Education to analyze needs and provide support to the state’s 26 at-risk schools. The South Carolina Education Accountability Act authorizes support for the state’s lowest-performing schools, designated as “at-risk,” and tasks the S.C. Department of Education to recruit and organize teams of experts to assist these schools. The National Dropout Prevention Center will train and lead 26 External Review Teams consisting of experienced educators and community leaders selected by the Department of Education and assigned to targeted schools. Housed in Clemson University’s College of Health, Education and Human Development and Eugene T. Moore School of Education, the National Dropout Prevention Center is a clearinghouse for dropout prevention research and a provider of dropout prevention services to schools, districts and state and national bodies. Its mission is to increase high school graduation rates through research and evidence-based solutions.