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Girls Who Code Goes to Capitol Hill: Can Congress Help Solve the Gender Gap in Tech?

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Girls Who Code founder and CEO Reshma Saujani speaks to girls and women in tech, along with about a dozen congresswomen, to kick off an event at the Library of Congress on July 10. You can’t just put a computer lab or have a computer science class in a middle or elementary school and think everything is going to change.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” The University of Wisconsin at Madison plans to close 22 libraries and create six “hubs” in their stead, says The Wisconsin State Journal.

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