This study explores some techniques that could assist education managers in their attempt to arrive at more optimal input and output mixes. The first part (Chapters 1-4) provides an overview of the input-output concept in relation to its employment in the educational setting, along with a review of the literature on the educational production function. The second part explores the production process of secondary education for a sample of Pennsylvania secondary schools. A description of the Pennsylvania Plan is contained in Chapter 5, followed by a simultaneous-equations analysis in Chapter 6 and the construction of an output index, based on the technique of canonical correlations, in Chapter 7. The final part consists of a brief chapter on the use of mathematical programming, in particular goal programming, as an alternative tool for educational input-output analysis. Data tables and a bibliography are included. (Author/IRT)