Collaboration in School-Based Consultation: Myth in Need of Data

American students, more so than at any other time in history, have the intellectual potential and opportunity to become educated, but are failing to achieve. This problem of underachievement has consequences for the future of our nation that are now and will continue to be devastating: Each class of dropouts can be expected to earn about $237 million less over a lifetime and pay $70 billion less in taxes than high school graduates (Mitgang, 1991).