And when I talked to my former home ec teacher recently, her raspy 75-year-old voice conflating the three decades since she taught me how to make soup, she wondered aloud where home economics had ...

Although there has been a resurgence of interest in life skills and domestic housework education particularly among college students, home economics remains dwarfed by language arts, math, science ...

The book deals of course with the teaching of home economics in the United States, but its breadth of view and depth of thought are such as to make it international in scope and application.

One effect of the current bleak economic climate has been an increasing stress on the importance of teaching the fundamentals of finance to K-12 students. But the financial literacy education we have ...

It would be more worthwhile for students to take home economics instead, which would teach practical skills and knowledge more relevant and essential to students’ lives. In the past, home economics ...

While home economics is studied in the classroom around the world, it is only when it is practised at home that it becomes empowering. I ask all mums and dads to start thinking of teaching basic ...

Review: 'The Secret History of Home Economics,' by Danielle Dreilinger NONFICTION: What began as a way to systemize housekeeping became a means of molding the perfect white wife.

Education Queensland decides to remove home economics from its senior syllabus from the end of next year.