Melissa Arnold Lyon
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Melissa Arnold Lyon
PhD student ,
Teachers College, Columbia University
Melissa Arnold Lyon is a PhD student in the Politics and Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include education politics, federalism, and the interest-group dynamics of social and educational policy. Her work has been published in Urban Affairs Review and Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She was previously a middle school English teacher with and later manager of teacher leadership development with Teach for America.
updated 2018
Publications by Melissa Arnold Lyon
California’s education policy agenda, in particular the near-simultaneous implementation of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), has created challenges and opportunities for the state. Coming on the heels…