The Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) is a nonprofit organization that serves the educational needs of academically talented youth. TIP is affiliated with Duke University, which is consistently ranked among the top universi...
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Although he made two more stage appearances before his death, Ellington performed what is considered his final "full" concert in a ballroom at Northern Illinois University on March 20, 1974. The hall was renamed the Duke Ellington Ballroom in 1980. ...
At the same time, the abolition of child labor and the institutionalization of a national network of primary schools that provided free education for all children raised the problem of how to tend children in working-class districts during the long summer holiday, when school was no longer in ...