{"id":1397,"date":"2026-10-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edi.lt\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=1397"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:32:30","slug":"has-america-given-up-on-knowledge-in-schools-david-steiner","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/edi.lt\/en\/veikla\/tinklalaide\/has-america-given-up-on-knowledge-in-schools-david-steiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ar Amerika atsisak\u0117 \u017eini\u0173 mokyklose? | David Steiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t think critically about nothing in particular.&#8221; Dr David Steiner of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy on why American schools traded knowledge for skills, and what the states that turned their results around did differently. 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