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 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 ...

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 ...