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Read briefs about local education news, including awards for Augustana College and Bettendorf paraeducators.

The Uttar Pradesh teacher who was seen asking students to slap their Muslim classmate in a video, has claimed that the viral clip was distorted.

Jason McDonald discovered glassblowing more than two decades ago at an after-school program in his hometown, Tacoma, Washington. He was 14 at the time

So when Solange Knowles, a singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist, asked McDonald to collaborate on glassware after someone from her team spotted him on TV, he didn’t even have to think about it.

Jason McDonald became a glassblower knowing that throughout history, there’s little to no record of Black glassblowers. He’d like to change that.

Solange Knowles recently launched her limited-edition 5-piece glassware collection in conjunction with glassblower Jason McDonald.

The multihyphenate creative teamed up with noted glassblower artist Jason McDonald to curate the collection under Saint Heron’s commerce project, Small Matter.

She wore the jaw-dropping look to unveil her new glassware collection.