Alyssa Lyons

ALYSSA LYONS

Passionate Educator, Critical Researcher,
and Sociologist.

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I'm Alyssa lyons

I am a doctoral lecturer at Lehman College in the City University of New York. I earned my PhD in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and I also have a Master’s in Politics and Education from Teachers College Columbia University.

My Research

Alyssa Lyons

My research interests include education, critical theories, race and racisms, and gender and sexuality. My current research explores the construct of parental engagement within a broader paradigm of school abolition and liberatory politics.

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Alyssa Lyons

When I’m not teaching, researching, or advising, you can catch me listening to music, watching something in the suburban gothic horror genre, or chatting in a book club somewhere.

Course I've Taught

At Lehman, I have taught a range of courses across varying academic levels. Those courses include introductory, upper-level, and honors level courses such as:

Fundamentals of Sociology
Education and Society
Education and Inequality
Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Education and Society
Introduction to Queer Studies
“Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.”

—Gloria E. Anzaldúa

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How the Moynihan Report Birthed Parental Engagement Policy in Schools

Everyday Sociology

Parental involvement in U.S. federal educational policy began in 1965 with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, influenced by the Moynihan Report, which blamed racial inequalities on Black family structures. This shifted the responsibility for educational disparities from systemic issues to individual families, leading modern policies to unduly blame poor, working-class, and BIPOC families while promoting assimilation into white, middle-class norms.

Book Bans Impact Students’ Worldviews

CONTEXTS - SOCIOLOGY FOR THE PUBLIC

Book bans in U.S. schools limit students’ exposure to diverse narratives and critical perspectives, particularly those by Black, Brown, and queer authors. Concentrated in politically conservative states, these bans aim to maintain oppressive ideological control by excluding stories that challenge dominant norms and restrict students’ ability to envision more inclusive futures.

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