Extra credit is an academic concept, particularly used in schools.

So that was sort of a cool academic concept that somebody said, hey, let's sell this.

One can no longer start," he once said, "from the old academic concept of educating great artists.

Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to express.

And the future national income remains an academic concept too often buffeted by political winds.

"It's an academic concept that on paper achieves several goals, but in practice it raises very serious questions," he said.

The curriculum in the early childhood program is designed to develop basic academic concepts and social skills.

The curriculum combines classical music excerpts with academic concepts drawn from Minnesota state education standards, and focuses on a different subject each year.

Marx's own idea of character masks was not a cut-and-dried academic concept with a fixed definition.

He has known that death was coming, of course, but until this minute it has been an academic concept.