What began as a small vocational track has evolved into a space where creativity, commerce and conscience intertwine — the ...

Last year the Arlington Heights Elementary District School Board decided to get rid of its Home Economics curriculum. It joined a growing number of other districts around the country that have either ...

It sounds a bit like a joke, but there’s a real answer: the Smith-Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917.

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 ...

Offering vocational home economics courses in Scranton public schools led to a $30,000-a-year grant from the federal government. Scranton School Superintendent Dr. John H. Dyer said having the courses ...

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 ...

The West Virginia Senate passed a bill Thursday requiring the West Virginia Board of Education to implement home economics courses for students in secondary schools. The Senate passed the bill 33-0, ...

This article is one of the winning submissions from the New York Post Scholars Contest, presented by Command Education. NYC high schools are failing their students—not academically, but practically.