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The new incarnation, called family and consumer sciences, helps kids learn survival skills for college and independent living If there's such thing as a home economics revolution, it's happening in ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — For almost 70 years, teachers of family and consumer sciences — what used to be called home economics — have been gathering monthly in Cedar Rapids to exchange ideas and stay up to date ...

A couple months ago, I was sorting a small pile of clothes my husband and I had set aside to bring to the dry cleaner and the tailor. I picked up one of his shirts and inspected it for the reason it ...

When it comes to fighting for respect in the cerebral world of academe, home economics has always had an arm -- or is it an apron? -- tied behind its back. Ask people in the field for a reason to take ...

Wake up. Brush teeth. Get ready. Get a bite of breakfast. Go to school. This is the basic routine for kids around the world. Going to school is necessary in order to be educated in writing, reading, ...

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 and ...

“Home ec.” The words conjure images of high school girls concocting muffins, stitching aprons, dutifully preparing for life as wives and mothers. Forget all that. In her revelatory new book “The ...

In her new book, “The Secret History of Home Economics,” Danielle Dreilinger challenges common perceptions of a once-thriving profession. In her new book, “The Secret History of Home Economics: How ...

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 ...

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 ...