Gene Lyons

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gene Lyons

Our system of training teachers is a crime that robs taxpayers of millions of dollars, robs potential teachers of competence and self-respect, and robs our kids of a decent education.

Jan 20, 2013 — By Gene Lyons

Last year half of Dallas’ new teachers failed a standard test on general knowledge that was a piece of cake compared to what we once expected teachers to know.

Jan 1, 1993 — By Gene Lyons

Bill Clinton’s Arkansas isn’t the backwater you might think.

Aug 31, 1982 — By Gene Lyons

The University at one hundred; how good is it, really?

Jul 31, 1981 — By Gene Lyons

Texas Fathers for Equal Rights joined divorced men from all over the country to protest family courts that have always favored mothers in child custody cases.

Mar 1, 1981 — By Gene Lyons

Lamar University’s hotshot basketball team makes lost of hoops, little hoopla.

Jan 1, 1981 — By Gene Lyons

The Texas education Agency’s recent report on teacher competency doesn’t make the grade.

Nov 1, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

Gas pipeline companies are devouring Lee County; border plasma clinics beckon poor Mexicans; oh, deer, what can the matter be?

Aug 31, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

A black Houstonian revised the Horatio Alger legend; making a racket in Mason; UT astronomers yearn to conquer the universe; requiem for a reef.

Jul 31, 1980 — By Gene Lyons

Yankee lawyers kick up dust in the Panhandle; maniacal marathon man runs for his life; the redfish that got away; are Dallas’s tax ills contagious?