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 ...

The American diet is in bad shape. Fewer than 12% of adults eat the USDA’s recommended daily 1.5-2 cups of fruit, and only 10% meet the recommended 2-3 cups of vegetables. Despite a brief uptick in ...

Departing from the stereotype of young women learning to cook and sew, Gen Z rewrites the story of home economics in high school. Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, the student ...

This is the first installment of an occasional feature that we're calling Cooking Class. In each segment, we'll tell you exactly how to master a different cooking technique, we'll give you easy ...

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 ...

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 ...