%0 Journal Article %T Improving school and community partnership for sustainable quality assurance in secondary schools in Nigeria %A Ayeni %A Adeolu Joshua %J International Journal of Research Studies in Education %D 2012 %I Consortia Academia Publishing %X The paper highlights the objectives of secondary education, principal¡¯s, teacher¡¯s and student¡¯s tasks in the attainment of quality education in secondary schools. It also examines the effectiveness of school-community partnership in ensuring quality instructional management, resource inputs, process and students¡¯ learning outcomes. The paper concluded that the challenges that principals and teachers faced require effective application of a goal-oriented school and community partnership model as means of improving the quality of teaching and learning for the attainment of the set goals in secondary schools. %K educational objectives %K school-community partnership %K sustainable quality assurance %K principal¡¯s tasks %K teacher¡¯s tasks %K student¡¯s tasks %K partnership model %K learning outcome %U http://www.consortiacademia.org/index.php/ijrse/article/view/49