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, ...

Home economics is missing in high schools. I noticed my school and many others around me don’t offer home economics as a course. There are schools that still offer home economics, or family and ...

High schools and middle schools refer to the home economics classes of yesteryear as family arts and consumer sciences courses today. I never had any of those classes during my school years, but I’ve ...

Family and consumer sciences, the modern name for home economics, was once a staple of high school curriculum ... reported ...

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 ...

Students Owen Hockenberry, left, and Nicholas Hooper sand a card box they are making in a technology education class at Burgettstown High School on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Girls learned how to thread ...

A century ago, the curriculum at O’Fallon Township High School was very different from what it is today. During the 1920-1921 school year, one difference was the Home Economics Department under the ...

"Sometimes we take for granted that kids know how to wash dishes," says Susan Turgeson, president of the Association of Teacher Educators for family and consumer sciences. "I never thought I was going ...

Lyons Township High School is registering area students for a variety of summer programming that includes academic programs and activity camps. Adam Davis, assistant principal and summer school ...

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 ...