{"id":767,"date":"2014-03-17T10:26:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlychildhoodnyc.org\/newswatch\/?p=767"},"modified":"2014-03-17T10:27:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:27:14","slug":"in-memoriam-elisabeth-s-hirsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/in-memoriam-elisabeth-s-hirsch\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Elisabeth S. Hirsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong>In Memoriam<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tElisabeth S. Hirsch, a professor emeritus of The City College of New York, passed away, after a long illness, in February 2014.&nbsp; Born in Budapest, Hungary, she was a Holocaust survivor and a wife and mother whose career included many years as an early childhood teacher at the Little Red School in New York City followed by many more years as a professor of early childhood education at The City College of New York.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tShe was the author of seminal early childhood publications, the most renowned of which are <em>The Block Book<\/em> and <em>Transition Periods:&nbsp; A Stumbling Block of Education<\/em> &ndash; both published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.&nbsp; These timeless works have supported thousands of early childhood educators &#8211; across the nation and the world &ndash; to become better teachers.&nbsp; Grounded in a deep understanding of child development, they make complex ideas and issues easy to understand, demonstrating in a down-to-earth way how teachers and schools can facilitate young children&rsquo;s optimal development by supporting the active nature of their learning and nurturing their social\/emotional lives.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLisa&nbsp; &#8211; as she was known to her colleagues, students, and friends &#8211; was a great mentor and advocate for young children.&nbsp; We each can honor her legacy through our commitment to continuing her work of ensuring the realization of high quality early childhood education for all.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBeverly Falk, Ed.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Memoriam Elisabeth S. Hirsch, a professor emeritus of The City College of New York, passed away, after a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"initiatives":[],"audiences":[],"organizations":[],"cbk":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"initiatives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"organizations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizations?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"cbk","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cbk?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}