home ec

Example Sentences

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Carol replies, aghast, “Why in the world do you want to take home ec.?”

From Salon

But there’s an argument for bringing back home ec and shop, not only for students who may be better served by opting out of college but also for those students bent on white-collar life.

From Seattle Times

“This would enable a food service manager or extension agent or home ec teacher to diagnose and correct food preparation errors,” she wrote.

From Washington Post

“Dreilinger chronicles home ec’s decline beginning in the 1960s and its frantic efforts to reinvent itself,” Virginia Postrel writes in her review, fondly recalling her own time in a middle school home ec classroom.

From New York Times

Tell us a bit about your vision for the future of home ec, because I thought it was done and gone, but it sounds like that's not the case.

From Salon