Elizabeth Heubeck is a staff writer for Education Week who covers education angles and intersections in major news events and cultural phenomena and reports on high demand topics and issues.
The late first lady Nancy Reagan speaks at the first national conference of the National Federation of Parents for Drug-Free Youth in Washington on Oct. 11, 1982. Experts say drug-prevention programs have evolved since those years, when many such programs turned out to be ineffective.
Players and staff pray for the Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin after the 24-year-old athlete suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed during the first half of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
A student looks at his mother as he is vaccinated at a school-based COVID-19 vaccination clinic for students 12 and older in San Pedro, Calif., in May 2021.
Pymatuning Valley High School Principal Dan Jackson reads a revised "It Was the Night Before Christmas" to students during the school's annual Reindeer Games in Andover Township, Ohio, last year.