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Zenkov, Kristien; Harmon, Jim; van Lier, Piet – Multicultural Perspectives, 2008
The high school dropout crisis in diverse urban communities in the United States is evidence of an endemic disengagement from formal education. The project on which this essay reports utilized visual sociology methods to explore city students' perceptions of schools' purposes, as well as the supports for and impediments to their school success.…
Descriptors: High Schools, Student Attitudes, Graduation Rate, Dropouts