Academy (educational institution) - Academic personnel. 1  An academic is a person who works as a teacher or researcher at a university or other higher education institution. An academic usually holds an advanced degree. The term scholar is sometimes used with equivalent meaning to that of academic and describes in general those who attain mastery in a research discipline.
States that never adopted the Standards. Forty-two of the fifty U.S. states and the District of Columbia are members of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, with the states of Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Alaska, Nebraska, Indiana, and South Carolina not adopting the initiative at a state level.
This lack of standardization was one reason why states decided to develop the Common Core State Standards in 2009. The development of the Common Core State Standards is a success story of meaningful, state-led change to help all students succeed. The college- and career-readiness standards were developed first and then incorporated into the K-12 standards in the final version of the Common Core we have today.