American Times
I hope you're sitting down. One of the hottest new education blogs is (1) hosted on the Forbes website and (2) written by a self-professed "leftwing civil societarian." The new American Times blog is the work of E. D. Kain, a frequent contributor to the prominent progressive blog Balloon Juice and editor-in-chief of the blog The League of Ordinary Gentlemen.
It's a measure of Kain's significance that the blog's debut quickly netted a feature on Alexander Russo's This Week in Education. There, Kain shares his education background (former substitute teacher, "education hobbyist") and his goals