home-economics

Anne McQuary for The Wall Street Journal "He was declared excess, which really offended me because he's not excess," says Deb, a 50-year-old home-economics teacher.

A Former Bomb-Dog Finds a New Home 2010

Gunner "He was declared excess, which really offended me because he's not excess," says Deb, a 50-year-old home-economics teacher.

Shell-Shocked Dog of War Finds a Home With the Family of a Fallen Hero Michael M. Phillips 2010

And then the junior high school home-economics thing was just the worst.

Girls Gone Studious 2007

And then the junior high school home-economics thing was just the worst.

Girls Gone Studious 2007

She works at a school where there's a really happy, full-on home-economics teacher in her early 60s.

Archive 2008-10-01 appleleaf 2008

She works at a school where there's a really happy, full-on home-economics teacher in her early 60s.

Quiet Heroism appleleaf 2008

My generation grew up just as home-economics classes were being phased out and credit cards were being ushered in (the general-purpose credit card took off in the late '60s).

A Penny Saved is a Penny Spent 2008

In a few large cities home-economics courses are offered in the high schools, but expense of equipment and maintenance have usually barred it from the elementary schools and have limited its development in high schools. 19

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

She was disappointed when her employer enrolled her in a home-economics trade program, instead of regular school.

Slavery's New Face 2008

In the early 1980s. when Sherry Trella, Rindge and Latin's home-economics coordinator, first decided that the school needed a day-care program. officials estimated that 50 Cambridge girls a year dropped out after becoming mothers.

High School Homeroom 2008