Some curriculum developers recognize. the need for product evaluation, but do not. choose to conduct the assessment. Two prac. tices are commonly pursued by these groups. One procedure is to acknowledge the respon. sibility to evaluate, but delegate it to another.
Homefacts City Report. Columbia is located in Boone County, MO. The population is 113,230, making Columbia the largest city in Boone County and the 4th largest city in the state of Missouri. There are 36 public schools in Columbia with an average Homefacts rating of C+.
By 1839, the population (13,000) and wealth of Boone County was exceeded in Missouri only by that of St. Louis County, which at that time included the City of St. Louis. Columbia's infrastructure was relatively untouched by the Civil War. Missouri, as a slave state, had Southern sympathies, but remained in the Union. The majority of the city was pro-Union, however, the surrounding agricultural areas of Boone County and the rest of central Missouri were decidedly pro-Confederate.