That's simply false actually. The United States education system is severely in trouble and knowing who Trump has as the Secretary of Education, it won't be improving any time now. I'll give you an example of things that you may thing are real but are false.
Did you know that during Castro's reign of Cuba, Cuba had one of the highest literacy rate in the world? Do you know why that was? Because the kids were forced to read what Castro had in front of them. It wasn't normal reading, it was brainwash. But yea know...they still knew how to read right?