The fun, fresh school curriculum includes dinner table discussion guides and practical “homework” designed to teach kids how to distribute household work fairly. Jeff Kravitz/Getty Images Mom-of-three ...

Departing from the stereotype of young women learning to cook and sew, Gen Z rewrites the story of home economics in high ...

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 ...

A century ago, the curriculum at O’Fallon Township High School was very different from what it is today. During the 1920-1921 school year, one difference was the Home Economics Department under the ...

Home economics is missing in high schools. I noticed my school and many others around me don’t offer home economics as a course. There are schools that still offer home economics, or family and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is not your parents' home economics class. “In the past, schools’ home economics classes were centered on the concept that one family member is responsible for running a household," said ...

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 ...

Recently, there have been weeks that have gone by when I have asked myself repeatedly why I bothered to go to college. Now I know what you’re thinking — and don’t get me wrong — of course I know why I ...