Salem kids learn more than U.S. average, national Stanford study finds

Students get off the bus for the first day of school at Bush Elementary. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter)

Salem-Keizer students improve their reading and math more than most U.S. students over the course of their education, according to a nationwide study by Stanford University.

But they still remain behind their peers across the U.S. on tests from third to eighth grade, the study found.

The study, called the Educational Opportunity Project, is the first of…