At the end of January and the beginning of February, I wrote a series about smaller schools and the concept of a "university model" for high schools.
In McNeil, Texas... a suburb of Austin... there is a newer, larger high school that has a small engineering "college" and a health science "college" within the larger high school "university." This is what I was proposing, although my proposal was more extensive; the entire high school would be composed of these "colleges."
Click on this link to read about what McNeil has done. Then click on "School Info" when you are at the site.
I guess Texas must be one of those few places where U.S. kids still want to be engineers instead of importers or working in the "service industry."..