The industrial kitchen displayed all the hectic activity of a reality TV cooking show. Chefs tended anxiously to their creations – “Do these bread crumbs look browned enough?” – and kept a watchful ...

Last year the Arlington Heights Elementary District School Board decided to get rid of its Home Economics curriculum. It joined a growing number of other districts around the country that have either ...

Although there has been a resurgence of interest in life skills and domestic housework education particularly among college students, home economics remains dwarfed by language arts, math, science and ...

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 ...

Perhaps it's time to start teaching kids useful kitchen skills in home economics classes. Image courtesy of Flickr user cafemama What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “home economics”? Perhaps ...

Offering vocational home economics courses in Scranton public schools led to a $30,000-a-year grant from the federal government. Scranton School Superintendent Dr. John H. Dyer said having the courses ...

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 ...

This article is one of the winning submissions from the New York Post Scholars Contest, presented by Command Education. NYC high schools are failing their students—not academically, but practically.

High schools and middle schools refer to the home economics classes of yesteryear as family arts and consumer sciences courses today. I never had any of those classes during my school years, but I’ve ...

Naomi Buck is a Toronto-based writer. Raising kids is full of moments that feel like victories wrapped in defeats – such as when your teenaged sons announce they’re going to make their own lunch, and ...