In promoting the competition, the administration has highlighted nontraditional high schools that offer technical alternatives to standard academic fare.
The bride's mother was a supervisor for a unit of the board that provided nontraditional educational programs for high school students.
The original mission of Old Westbury called for it to serve "nontraditional students," including adults and high school students who were not well prepared for college.
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While Erin Gruwell, the subject of the film, may have taught for only five years, as Mr. Moore points out, she went on to edit and publish a well-received anthology of student writing, and established the Freedom Writers Foundation to disseminate some of the nontraditional teaching methods that helped her students graduate from high school.
But even traditional students like Ms. Madden — those who head to a four-year college right out of high school — are approaching the experience in a nontraditional way.
The choice, Cami Anderson, has served for four years as senior superintendent of New York's network of alternative schools for nontraditional students, like those who are in jail or beyond high school age.
Adding fuel to this fire, in the MHE survey, nontraditional students (those who did not enter college within a year of high school) were more likely to feel prepared for the workforce than traditional students, 49% to 34%.
Today, three in four students are "nontraditional," which could mean that they didn't enroll in college right after high school, are currently working full- or part-time, or have young children to support.
Thanks to the Great Recession, nontraditional students those who are over 25, fully independent, a single parent, enrolled part-time, or without a high school diploma now outnumber traditional students.
David C. Bloomfield, a professor of education at Brooklyn College and former president of the city's high school parent council, suggested that school officials note on transcripts any credits that are earned through nontraditional means.
