Panel Assails Afrocentric Science Curricula

By Meg Sommerfeld

Baltimore

Public schools have too easily accepted Afrocentric curricula based on pseudoscience and myth, a panel of predominantly African-American scientists told their colleagues here last week.

The group of biologists and anthropologists devoted the better part of a day of the six-day annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to the use of so-called Afrocentric curricula. Such curricula are designed to blend the contributions of blacks--both in the ancient and modern worlds--into the teaching of...