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.
Implementation costs will be even more problematic in larger states like California. The California Department of Education estimates that Common Core will cost the state about $760 million.Outside estimates place California's fiscal commitment at up to $1.6 billion.California already expects a $3 billion deficit at the end of fiscal year 2011, and a $10 billion deficit in 2012-13.ocal school districts will be required to pay for at least $165.5 million of the new spending, and the cost of new textbooks alone is expected to top $122 million â a fact that has even the standards' most enthusiastic endorsers worried.