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 part of the ...

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 ...

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 ...