Dr. Dillon McGill is an Assistant Professor of Educational Policy in the Department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, & Counseling at Texas Tech University. His research draws on large-scale administrative data, original survey and interview data, social network analysis, and econometric methods to inform state and district education policy. His current projects examine how families’ school choices generate competitive pressures between schools in choice-based enrollment systems. A second line of inquiry focuses on the budgetary practices of principals and how resource allocation policies shape student outcomes.

Dr. McGill is a research affiliate of the Center for Innovative Research in Change, Leadership, and Education (CIRCLE), the Research Alliance for New York City Schools (RANYCS), and the Tennessee Education Research Alliance (TERA). He earned his Ph.D. in Education Policy from Vanderbilt University and was a recipient of the American Educational Research Association and National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant.