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Home Economics

Many millennials who took a home economics class in middle or high school considered it to be boring and a waste of time. However, it’s a class that provided valuable information that we need to know ...
A growing chorus is even calling for home-ec to make a comeback as a key pillar of K-12. And yet I still cringe at how old-school it feels—and at the sexism that can seem so inextricably tied to the ...
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 ...