Saving Nashville schools
by Jaime Sarrio
Nestled between a country club and rows of million-dollar homes sits Hillwood High, a school named after the West Nashville community that shuns it. The bulk of Hillwood students come from the poorest areas in the school's 90-square-mile attendance zone. And because Hillwood is now an island populated by students from other places, the people living in the upscale neighborhood surrounding it have no stake in the school and don't want one. It wasn't always that way.
The Tennessean, 5/11/2008