Dillon G. McGill, Ph.D.

Dillon McGill is an assistant professor of education policy in the department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Counseling at Texas Tech University and a research affiliate with the Research Alliance for New York City Schools and the Tennessee Education Research Alliance.  His applied quantitative and mixed-methods research supports district leadership teams and state agencies answer policy-relevant questions about the impact of their decisions on students and schools. He received his Ph.D. in education policy and leadership from Vanderbilt University and was the recipient of an American Educational Research Association and National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant Award. 

Dr. McGill broadly studies the effects of resource allocation decisions and school choice policy. His current school finance projects include a mixed methods examination of the impact of additional funding on student outcomes and how school leaders decide how to  allocate resources on their campuses. In another strand of his work, he studies families' preferences for public school options in New York City and how principals respond to competitive enrollment pressures. 

Prior to graduate school, he taught high school English in the west valley of Phoenix, coached and trained charter and district teachers and leaders with the Arizona Charter Schools Association, and managed Teach For America's K-12 leadership development and alumni strategy in the Phoenix region.