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Students who learn a foreign language out-score their non-foreign language learning peers in the verbal and -- surprisingly, perhaps -- math sections of standardized tests.... 
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Published by CBC News, October 13, 2011 Bilingualism may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease, a brain scanning study suggests.
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Published by National Geographic News, April 13, 2009 Even before they can babble a single word, babies in bilingual households may get a head start in mental development, scientists report.
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Published by CBS News, October 13, 2004 People who are bilingual have an advantage over the rest of us, and not just in terms of communication skills. The bilingual brain develops more densely, giving it an advantage in various abilities and skills, according to new research.
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Published by the New York Times, October 10, 2011 Once, experts feared that young children exposed to more than one language would suffer “language confusion,” which might delay their speech development. Today, parents often are urged to capitalize on that early knack for acquiring language. Upscale schools market themselves with promises of deep immersion in Spanish — or Mandarin — for everyone, starting in kindergarten or even before. Yet while many parents recognize the utility of a second language, families bringing up children in non-English-speaking households, or trying to juggle two languages at home, are often desperate for information. And while the study of bilingual development has refuted those early fears about confusion and delay, there aren’t many research-based guidelines about the very early years and the best strategies for producing a happily bilingual child. But there is more and more research to draw on, reaching back to infancy and even to the womb. As the relatively new science of bilingualism pushes back to the origins of speech and language, scientists are teasing out the earliest differences between brains exposed to one language and brains exposed to two.
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Published by Israel21c, January 27, 2011 Bilingual children show greater cognitive flexibility and have an advantage over kids who speak only one language, according to University of Haifa researchers. The study found that children who speak two languages can easily learn a third, and can raise their IQ while doing so. Researchers also showed that those with Russian as a first language are more fluent in Hebrew compared to those who speak Hebrew as a mother tongue.
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Published by BBC News, February 21, 2007 Ministers are being urged to do more to encourage children to speak two languages from a young age. Edinburgh University and the Royal Society of Arts say research points to bilingual children being better at learning a wide range of subjects.
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Published by the Cognitive Advantage, June 27, 2000 Unfortunately, the political battles concerning bilingual education have obscured important research demonstrating a link between balanced bilingualism, which involves becoming equally proficient in both languages, and cognitive gains—especially in terms of increased metalinguistic awareness.
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