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The kindle is almost there. What I wanted and had hoped it   would be,

was a reader  that I could read say a french story , if I did not know a word I could look up the meaning in English AND get a pronunciation.

So the Kindle is close but no teddy bear.

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That's a cruel joke. The only TAG program I know of is run by the Univ of Oregon. (http://www.uoregon.edu/~tag/view_program.php?sess_program_id=68)
Our son is now a senior in high school, tag programs were absent from K thru 12.
We did however fair better than a lot of people, thru luck more than anything else. We live near the U of O, and the grade school that serves this area has many faculty/student children. This makes a difference, both in money (contributed to the school) and interest and participation in school administration. The school had by some estimates over 50% TAG kids, this makes a great difference in the teaching. The whole school was basically a surreptitious TAG program. The middle school also had a lot of the same qualities. For the high school they have an International High school, which serves as a surrogate for a TAG program.

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