First are the incessant false claims that public education is failing and ineffective. The alternative facts presented are that U.S. education does not measure up to education in other nations. Not only does the U.S. continue to improve in international measures, but while the U.S. educates its entire student population regardless of geography or poverty, the same cannot be said of many of the so-called top performing nations to whom the U.S. is compared. In fact, when poverty is taken into consideration, the U.S. leaps to the top of international comparisons.