Brian Gill studies K–12 education policy, including charter schools, educator effectiveness, and the implementation and impacts of high-stakes testing and other accountability regimes.
Gill is one of the nation’s leading experts on the effects of charter schools. He has led pioneering studies of nonprofit charter-school management organizations, online charter schools, and KIPP. He co-directed the first study of the effects of charter high schools on graduation, college enrollment, and earnings in adulthood, as well as the first study of the impact of charter schools on civic participation. Gill is also an expert on accountability regimes in education, serving as a principal investigator for the federal study of the implementation of ESEA. He was lead author on a study of the implications of behavioral science research for accountability in schools.
He directed the U.S. Department of Education’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, where he assisted educators and officials with high-priority projects, including the refinement of accountability systems and the development of improved measures of educator performance. He is one of the nation’s leading experts on the evaluation of school principals.
Gill recently began a new role as a Senior Researcher at GiveWell, where he is contributing to the organization’s mission of identifying and supporting cost-effective, lifesaving interventions in the developing world. He continues to remain part-time at Mathematica, using his analytic expertise to support improvements in K–12 schooling in the United States.
