Abstract: National curriculum standard is the guiding document of school education development, America has always taken the lead in the sustainable development of curriculum standard. Depending on literature review, comparative study and logical analysis, this paper analyzes the three different versions (1995, 2004, 2013) of the national physical education curriculum standard in United States, indicating that large-scale education reform, needs of releasing the crisis of school physical education and the exploration of what is " physically well-educated person” guided the development of the national physical education curriculum standard in the United States, which is specifically embodied in the framework, content and assessment of the standard. The four features of change and development are characterized more and more by the attention on cultivating "an integrated person", the concise and simple language expression, the gradual promotion of operability and the focus on the permeation of research results. It will provide strong implication for China’s standard revision and improvement as well as the sustainable development of physical education and health curriculum standard in China.

Key words: United States, National Physical Education Curriculum Standards, history evolution, characteristic analysis