The fun, fresh school curriculum includes dinner table discussion guides and practical “homework” designed to teach kids how to distribute household work fairly.

But even if old-school shop or home economics classes are hard to find, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the lessons those classes taught have fallen out of the curriculum entirely.

Making these things were just part of the curriculum of home economics classes that we girls in the '50s and '60s were required to take in public school. And now, as we have progressed as a ...

Let's get Home Economics back on the National Curriculum for all children from the age of 9 (at the very least - in my ideal world even younger).

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 ...

I would like to propose pushing these life skills in the normal curriculum to prepare students for life in the real world.

I never took a home economics class. Those courses may have been gone from my Maryland school district by the time I entered middle school. But there have been times in my adult life ...

News Home-ec class isn’t dominated by girls anymore Ryan Judge, center, helps his students at Northglenn High School prepare hors d’oeuvres for the school’s staff.

I was a rotten high school student, a shirker and smart-ass of the first rank. I even found myself purged from a typing class for bad behavior—an event I regret to this precise moment, since ...

Graduating with her bachelor's degree in home economics in 1968, she was hired to teach classes at Crawford County R-1 in Bourbon.