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.
Then there's Oklahoma, which dumped the common core overboard and reverted to its prior standards, although it's still working on creating a new set of standards for the 2016-17 academic year. Then there are the states that are reviewing the common core in some capacity, like Missouri, North Carolina, and Tennessee.