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.
Explaining conclusions and reasoning their way to answers are just a couple of skills at the heart of new state math and English standards called the Common Core. California is one of 45 states and Washington, D.C., that have adopted the voluntary, national standards. While California has been gearing up for the standards change since 2010, this is the first year those changes are hitting most of the state's classrooms.