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.
The Common Core State Standards have become a hot-button issue recently in Georgia and across the. country. Georgia is one of 45 states that adopted the Common Core standards for math and English. language arts.1 The Georgia Public Policy Foundation has been asked by elected officials and citizens for. guidance on this important issue.