The research project documented in this book is about the allocation of educational resources for secondary education in Great Britain. It re-examines some current assumptions about the allocation of resources in educational administration and in schools. The research attempts to test how far specific or dynamic demand affects the release and the allocation of resources; and how far, conversely, constant lack or limitation of resources artifically depress demands. In practice, the findings of the inquiry highlight on the one hand, acute inequality of educational opportunities creating a cycle of deprivation for some groups of pupils in some areas. On the other hand, evidence also emerges of dedicated work by staffs and heads in local education authorities, faced with the task of post-war educational reconstructions. The book's chapters focus on: allocation of curricular resources, organization and political background of the local education authorities, finance providing the resources, central and local controls, secondary education in Lincoln, in Nottingham, and in Northumberland (1945-65), teaching staff, the schools survey and curricular resources, and school leavers. (Author/AM)