A study demonstrates that confidence in one's cooking skills translates into cooking more often, and perhaps more nutritiously. Have we overlooked how Home Econ is the applied techniques of science, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A bill that would require the West Virginia Board of Education to create a home economics course for students in secondary schools was advanced Wednesday to third reading in the West Virginia Senate.