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 ...

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 ...

Some of my high school friends and I have been meeting occasionally for Tea and Talk the past few years, and we enjoy catching up and reminiscing about old times. In several of these sessions, we have ...

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 ...

Top Chef judge Hugh Acheson has a new project he's working on: changing the way students learn about food and life. He is launching a charity that will overhaul home economics class in schools, ...

Those readers whose memories of home economics class are dominated by muffin tins and sewing machines might be surprised to learn about Caroline Hunt, an early innovator in the field. Hunt had no ...

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 ...

Wake up. Brush teeth. Get ready. Get a bite of breakfast. Go to school. This is the basic routine for kids around the world. Going to school is necessary in order to be educated in writing, reading, ...

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 ...

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 ...