Under the background of the increasing demand for high-ability talents, Gifted Education is the effective complement to school education as a concept of quality education. China needs the help of Gifted Education to realize the goal of building a strong country in human resources. School education is the most important part of the education system of China, its educational reform must be combined with the local reality to provide Gifted Education for Chinese students effectively. The schools and educators need to adhere to the ideas of “Gifted Development” and “Multi-oriented Gifted Education”, so as to draw on the experience of the reform and development of Gifted Education in the USA, to promote the organic integration of national policies, funds, social environment, curriculum system and the building of teachers, and attach importance to the interaction between students and environment, as well as the exertion of students’ subjective initiative, finally to provide rich and different education for all students in the whole school.

TAN Shaofeng, WEI Jihua. The Enlightenment of the Concept and Practice of Gifted Education in USA to the Development of Gifted Education in China: Perspective of School Education. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2020) Vol. 2 Issue 17: 117-126. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2020.021719.

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