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There is a movement happening in education right now. Maybe you've heard about it, maybe you haven't yet. It comes in various shapes and forms but the end result is the same: students learning what they want to learn. Yes, I said it, so let me repeat: Students are learning what they want in classrooms across the world.

"Does handwriting matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, the emphasis quickly shifts to proficiency on the keyboard. But psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to declare handwriting a relic of the past. New evidence suggests that the links between handwriting and broader educational development run deep."

"Creativity is a habit. The problem is that schools sometimes treat it as a bad habit. And the world of conventional standardized tests we have invented does just that. Try being creative on a standardized test, and you will get slapped down just as soon as you get your score. That will teach you not to do it again."

" Why do people believe in God? What is our evidence that there is an invisible agent who has a real impact on our lives? How can those people be so confident? Enlarge This Image T. M. Luhrmann Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Readers' Comments "Pascal's wager is not complete without the assumption of punishment for non-believers: torment and everlasting fire. Let's not forget that the fear of hell is essential to the process of indoctrination." Tom, Boston Read Full Comment » These are the questions that university-educated liberals ask about faith. They are deep questions. But they are also abstract and intellectual. They are philosophical questions. In an evangelical church, the questions would probably have circled around how to feel God's love and how to be more aware of God's presence. Those are fundamentally practical questions"

"So, what sort of things should we be teaching if we wanted to foster "ethical literacy"? What would count as a decent grounding in moral philosophy for the average citizen of contemporary, pluralistic societies? What follows is in no way meant to be definitive. It's not based on any sort of serious empirical data around people's familiarity with ethical issues. It's a just tentative stab (wait, can you stab tentatively?) at a list of things people should ideally know about ethics, and based, on what I see in the classroom and, online, often don't."

Higher Order Thinking

"And then the New York Times took on the issue this week, with a feature on how "The Literary Canon Could Make Students Squirm." In it, writer Jennifer Medina reports that students at "Oberlin College, Rutgers University, the University of Michigan, George Washington University and other schools" have this year all requested trigger warnings accompany certain classroom materials."