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.
Some of the Alabama legislators are using scare tactics to say that if Alabama decided to leave the Common Core Standards, they would become an âislandâ all alone among the other states. This map shows that that is absolutely not true. Numerous states are pulling back from the Common Core Standards: https://www.box.com/s/0jcz6zo5otf0ojtfe3tu. In fact, more and more states are pulling back from Common Core Standards once they know how terribly expensive it is going to be for statesâ taxpayers to pay for the cost of the national assessments.