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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Bring back home ec. That’s the radical idea advocated by two leaders of ...

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 ...

Family and consumer science teacher Marcia Kreutner smiles Tuesday as seventh-grader Alexander Kriener, right, Landon Hemphill, middle, and John Mauren, back, ask how to get their “baby” — an infant ...

A couple months ago, I was sorting a small pile of clothes my husband and I had set aside to bring to the dry cleaner and the tailor. I picked up one of his shirts and inspected it for the reason it ...

In 1955, Young America Films, an educational and instructional video production company, released a nine-minute short simply titled, “Why Study Home Economics?” It opens on two high school-aged ...

Don’t venture outside unless you have a tall pair of boots. The roads are something awful to behold. Julie Blume, Anna Morlock, and Edward Nachbar have left school for the remainder of the school year ...