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 ...

A growing chorus is even calling for home-ec to make a comeback as a key pillar of K-12. And yet I still cringe at how old-school it feels—and at the sexism that can seem so inextricably tied to the ...

The oft-misunderstood field spans science and nutrition and promotes that cooking and cleaning is undervalued as a form of labor. Home economics has been a “back door for women to enter science” that ...

Regarding Barbara Spindel’s review of Danielle Dreilinger’s “The Secret History of Home Economics” (Bookshelf, May 3): I have interacted with many young adults and frequently lamented the demise of ...

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 ...

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 ...

How many times have you had to write a check or cook a simple dinner for yourself, and you didn’t know how to do it? Many students just graduating from high school face this situation daily and end up ...

The board passed a resolution on Tuesday night to create a class that teaches personal finance to high school students, including how to use and manage money, credit, avoid debt, and write a check.

At a high school in rural Center Ridge, Arkansas, students walked into a classroom and stepped into someone else’s shoes. Klair Jordan, then a 9th grade student, was playing the role of a single ...

I've been working through a lot of financial decisions lately (new house, new car, getting a solid retirement fund really going, new kids, etc.) and like any good geek, I've been reading everything I ...