Outside the US, UK and Tokyo (and more recently some parts of China), there is no such thing as "public schools with good gifted programs".
This seems dubious and hard to ascertain. What evidence do you have that most other countries lack such schools?
(There are public schools for gifted children in Russia, and I'd guess in many places. The usual setup is not to filter directly by IQ, as Viliam_Bur describes (which does seem potentially socially inappropriate) but to admit students based on hard competitive tests in math/physics, and have as teachers either college professors or former math/physics olympians.)
There are public schools for gifted children in Russia, and I'd guess in many places. The usual setup is not to filter directly by IQ, as Viliam_Bur describes (which does seem potentially socially inappropriate) but to admit students based on hard competitive tests in math/physics, and have as teachers either college professors or former math/physics olympians.
Filtering by mathematics correlates positively with filtering by IQ, but it is not the same thing. Most gifted people are not great in maths.
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