The unemployment rate dipped last month…[e]xcept the employer doing almost all of the hiring was…the government…That’s part of the point that David Brooks was making in his much-read column…“Race to Sanity.” Whereas the Obama Administration is regulating and creating new programs like crazy in basically every other industry, education seems to be the exception. I’m with him to this point. But then he says that Race to the Top is the perfect example of this self-restraint in the ed realm…Read it here.