Exchange Students: Loveless Study and Tom Loveless

exchange students: We think we have made great strides in making our schools more challenging, here is at least one outside group that is in fact saying they are not terribly challenging, according to The Japan Times. While the findings appear to corroborate international student assessment tests, in which American schools trail behind many developed countries, some experts disputed the methodology and the underlying principles of Loveless' study, saying that foreign exchange students did not represent typical teenagers in their home countries and that the focus on sports wasn't necessarily a bad thing. You get this feeling the kids from abroad come here, they spend a year, they think that school is easier here, said Tom Loveless, a fellow with the Brown Center on Education Policy with the Brookings Institutions. In the survey conducted last spring, 259 teenagers from various countries compared their experience in American schools to that in their home countries. Forty-four percent of respondents said U.S. students spend much less time on schoolwork than at their home countries, while 21 percent thought they spend a little less. All the students were in the U.S. as part of the AFS Intercultural Programs, an international youth exchange organization. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.