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...districts in Newton, Lexington, and Lynnfield. But in Cambridge, the Harvard-trained educator with a passion for English literature will be confronted with challenges unlike those he has seen in his three decade career: how to educate an extraordinarily diverse student population while simultaneously navigating the politics of an urban school district...
...Young said that his decision to come to Cambridge was based on a strong desire to work in an urban district, something he called “a professional challenge...
...Urban school districts are really the great area of challenge and opportunity in the state and the country right now,” Young said...
...Fantini said Young’s lack of experience with urban schools was a potential concern...
...Social Sciences. The danwei supervised workers' lives down to marriage and childbirth, and prevented people from engaging in unregulated enterprises on the side. The decline of China's state-owned enterprises in the 1990s precipitated the breakdown of the danwei system. At the same time the country grew increasingly urbanized, and millions of migrant workers poured into big cities. "The traditional system could no longer manage," Zhou says. "The chengguan were established to handle the problems of the urban environment...