Highlights
Reducing learning inequality in foundational literacy is possible.
Interventions focusing on foundational skills may reduce learning inequality even without specific inequality targeting.
Measurement of learning inequality in foundational literacy is possible using existing tools familiar to economics.
Measuring learning at the bottom of the pyramid can lead to insights otherwise not observable through sample averages.
Improvements in means and in learning equity are not only compatible but indeed tend to happen simultaneously.
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