BigLeap Launches First Crowd-Funding Challenge Platform for Social Good

First Challenge Aims to Give Children Everywhere Access to Free Games That Can Actually Make Them Smarter

This is a challenge to develop low-cost games that provide children everywhere with the opportunity to sharpen their reasoning skills:
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Reasoning Training Increases Brain Connectivity Associated with High-Level Cognition

The Bunge Lab was recently cited in Scientific American for our recent publications linking reasoning training to strengthened neural pathways associated with higher-level cognitive ability:

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Phil and Carolyn Cowan Leading a Couples' Communication Project in London

Phil and Carolyn are bringing their expertise on the impact of parenting roles have on relationships to London.  They will be working with counselors to develop new ways for couples to communicate.  To read more, click here.

Why Gender Equality Stalled

Stephanie Coontz discusses the changes in gender equality in the United States since Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963.  In her opinion editorial, Coontz also presents how Phil and Carolyn Cowan's work with couples transitioning from partners to parents affects the gender dynamics in the relationship.
Why Gender Equality Stalled

Three Surprising Truths About Teens

Christine Carter, Director of Greater Good Parents, interviews Ron Dahl about adolescents and their emotional development.  In this article, she discusses three points that came as a surprise to her:  (1) "Your adolescent isn't a teenager"; (2) "Kids don't necessarily want to be happy":  and (3) "Puberty makes many kids seek conflict-and this is a good thing."  To read more, click here.

Study: Latino Children Make Up For Academic Shortcomings With Strong Social Skills

Mexican-American preschoolers start school way behind their white counterparts. Their poor language and pre-literacy skills put them at a huge disadvantage academically. But new research is showing that their social skills are fully developed and robust by the time they start school and are indistinguishable from their white peers. Experts believe the new findings have promising implications.

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