Taking a wider approach, Intel hopes to establish a network of 100 Computer Clubhouses around the world to proliferate technology education among students between the ages of 8 and 18.

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The proposals, amendments to a large education bill, will seek to improve computer technology to meet the learning styles of girls, reduce sexual harassment in schools, gather statistics on girls' participation in high school sports and develop ways to help keep pregnant and parenting teens in school.

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The stress should be on vocational training, postsecondary education and every program that will broaden access to computer science and strengthen science, technology, engineering and math in high schools and at the university level.

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