My favorite organization/cleaning books:

Speed Cleaning

Absolutely the best basic cleaning book out there!  This would be my top pick for teaching cleaning as part of a home economics course.  Mr. Campbell spells out, step by step, the most efficient way to clean each room of the house during your regular weekly cleaning.  Although he specifies the use of certain cleaning products for the sake of simplicity, similar products can be substituted.

Spring Cleaning

Although not nearly as impressive as Speed Cleaning, Spring Cleaning is also good.  It is the seasonal cleaning eequivalent of Speed Cleaning, describing efficient methods for cleaning windows, walls, and ceilings, polishing metal, etc.

Organizing from the Inside Out

This far outstrips any other organizing book I have ever read.  Like Speed Cleaning, I would recommend this highly as part of a home economics program, because it teaches a system.  If you are looking for lists of tips, this is not the book you want, but if you want to learn the skills for organizing that you can apply to all areas of your life, this is it.  (Time Management from the Inside Out, while okay, is not nearly as impressive as this one.  I, personally, did not find that it expanded enough on the time management notes found in this book to be worth the additional expense.)

The Overwhelmed Person’s Guide to Time Management

This is the best overview of time management I’ve seen so far.

Getting Organized

I don’t believe this book is nearly as good as Organizing from the Inside Out.  The sections on time management are not as comprehensive as The Overwhelmed Person’s Guide to Time Management.  It is, however, a pretty decent overall organizing book.

Getting Things Done

Ignore the few minor references to Zen.  (I didn’t even notice them until after the fact, when someone pointed them out.)  David Allen’s system has some really simplistically brilliant features.  Several of the things I read in this book really, truly changed the way I think about time management and made me immediately more efficient/effective.  How to implement it isn’t readily obvious to everyone after a single read-through, but it’s worth the effort to figure out what it is he’s telling you to do. (It really isn’t complicated; it just isn’t explained as well as it could be.)  And this system does not require any particular set of organizing materials.  (That is, you can implement it with index cards, a standard planner, a spiral notebook, Post-It’s – whatever.)

Marnie’s Kitchen Shortcuts
This one addresses all of the skills necessary for organizing your kitchen tasks – menu planning, grocery shopping, etc.  It also includes such bonuses as how to convert your favorite recipes to mixes to save time.