Ruth Powers Silverberg is an Associate Professor and Director of the Ed.D. in Community-Based Leadership in the School of Education at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Her teaching and research focus on preparing education and community-based leaders to foster constructivist organizations in service of the well-being of young people and their communities. She actively advocates for reclaiming schools and communities for the democratic project with colleagues, community leaders, parents, teachers, and students.
Degrees
BS, SUNY Oneonta
MS, College of St. Rose
EdD, Hofstra University
Dodge, A. & Powers Silverberg, R. (2016). Dominant Discourse, Educational Research and the Hegemony of Test Scores: If You Only Have a Hammer Every Problem Looks Like a Nail. Critical Education, 6(1).
Dodge, A., Powers Silverberg, R., Zahedi, K. (2016). Leadership Denied: Principal as Compliance Officer. In De-Testing and De-Grading Schools. New York: Peter Lang.
Kempf, A. and Powers Silverberg, R. (2015). Academic Disobedience: Engaging Michael Apple’s Nine Tasks of the Critical Scholar in an Age of Standardization. Chapter in School against neoliberal rule. Information Age Publishing: Charlotte, NC.
Powers Silverberg, R. (2013). From Compliance to Activism: The case of the New York Principals. Roundtable Presentation, 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California.
Ayers, W., Dodge, A., Nunez, I., Powers Silverberg, R. (2013). Edu4: Social Imagination and Political Activism in Education. Session, 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, California.
