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 ...

At a high school in rural Center Ridge, Arkansas, students walked into a classroom and stepped into someone else’s shoes. Klair Jordan, then a 9th grade student, was playing the role of a single ...

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Of all the paradoxes in the paradoxical field known as home economics, perhaps the most peculiar is the practice house, with its practice baby. Colleges and universities that offered home-ec ...

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 ...

Danielle Dreilinger came to New Orleans from Boston in 2012 to work for The Times-Picayune, where she spent years reporting on education in the city. Following a Knight Wallace Journalism Fellowship ...

What do you picture when you hear the phrase “home economics?” Do you think of a high school classroom full of sewing machines, pots and pans, mops and brooms — in other words, a vestige of our sexist ...

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 ...