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 ...

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 ...

BLOOMFIELD, Ohio (WYTV) — Whether it’s teaching kids how to cook, bake or sew, Bloomfield Home Economics teacher Nancy Sampson has been inspiring students for decades. She’s in her 53rd year of ...

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 ...

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 ...

These new books by Sharon & David Bowers offer a way to go back to high school and learn something, without actually going back. Call Mom or Dad.... stat. That’s what you did when you first struck out ...

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, ...

We’re settled in on this day of snowiness, cup of tea at the left of me, Sukie the kitty sitting on my right on the top of my printer. Snuggled in it occurs to me, in looking at last week’s chat about ...

During my four years at an all-girls high school, I took a class on poetry and enrolled in an elective on military history. Sports practices and choir rehearsals filled after-school calendars; ...

Balancing checkbooks? Cooking healthy food? Raising kids and diapering babies? Building healthy friendships? A lot of those basic skills we call "adulting"? There used to be a name for the class that ...