Long, long ago, in a land without cell phones, iPads, internet, social media, or really good takeout, Southern girls took Home Ec (as in Home Economics). And while it was likely the aim of school ...

A home economics class teaches important life skills, but fewer schools are teaching them. Bloomfield High School has found a ...

Forget gourmet dinners for housewives to make -- today's high school home economics courses have enough of a challenge just teaching students to boil noodles and scramble eggs. Now a part of the ...

Many millennials who took a home economics class in middle or high school considered it to be boring and a waste of time. However, it’s a class that provided valuable information that we need to know ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Forget gourmet dinners for housewives to make. Today's high school home economics courses have enough of a challenge just teaching students to boil noodles and scramble eggs. Now a ...

Students Owen Hockenberry, left, and Nicholas Hooper sand a card box they are making in a technology education class at Burgettstown High School on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Girls learned how to thread ...

As I begin to prepare for next semester's classes, I consider what my students need to learn. What aspects of my class will prepare them for the real world? The educational system needs to do the same ...

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If you took a home economics class in high school, then you know "adulting" takes a little practice. Like art and science, it's something you need to study up on so you know what items to look for in ...

The phrase “home economics,” or “home ec,” is almost synonymous with the 1960s, sewing machines and casserole dishes. Even though the premise of the course was to teach life and traditional home ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A new class on cooking, cleaning and budgeting could be coming to West Virginia schools under a bill passed by the Senate. Lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved the ...