Discusses gender-equity issues in science and engineering classrooms. Emily Wadsworth, assistant director of Women in Engineering Programs at Purdue University, developed Classroom Climate Workshops to act out scenarios that highlight gender inequality and encourage females to remain in these disciplines. (AIM)

Provides objectives and guidelines for preparing and executing a classroom exercise using superhero comic books. Discusses variations on the exercise for topics such as sociology of gender, social inequality, research methods, and introduction to sociology. Addresses purchasing comic books for the course. (CMK)

With more than 180,000 copies in print, the first volume of "Rethinking Our Classrooms" broke new ground, providing teachers with hands-on ways to promote values of community, justice, and equality--and build students' academic skills. This companion volume continues in that tradition, presenting a rich new collection of…