Clarence Page: Let’s not make race and culture too hot for our teachers to handle

Talking about race, I have long observed, is like talking about sex: We know it’s important, we like to think we know all about it, and yet we’re reluctant to talk about it in mixed company or in front of the children.

So, for much of that challenging educational task, we turn — where else? — to teachers, for whom the challenging task of educating our