>"If it's just about moving the kids around," Steele says, "that's not as exciting as if it's a way of teaching that makes you smarter." >Steele suspects the l

>"If it's just about moving the kids around," Steele says, "that's not as exciting as if it's a way of teaching that makes you smarter." >Steele suspects the latter because the effects are found in reading, not in math or science where there were few differences. This seems like evidence that bilingualism doesn't actually make you smarter with neuromagic, but the investigator chose to instead interpret it precisely the opposite way. I think a simpler explanation is that reading is a skill which has a component that is invariant with respect to the language. Identifying glyphs, pronouncing the words in your head etc.