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.
But many of you might still be stumped by this question: Just how many states have adopted the common core? My colleague Catherine Gewertz and I have just provided you an answer by updating our map of which states have adopted (and are using) the standards. It's been a little hard to keep track recently. And even in states that have officially dropped the common core, it's not clear the standards are truly gone. Indiana replaced the common core last year with standards that are quite similar. South Carolina adopted new standards earlier this year that are also closely aligned with the common core.