Education is one of the most regulated markets a technology company can enter. The customers are often public bodies, the users are often children, the money often comes from government, and the product affects a public good. For an EdTech company, regulation decides who can buy, what data can be collected, how a product can be marketed, whether federal student aid can flow through it, and in some countries whether the business may exist at all. This section covers US student-privacy law (FERPA, COPPA and its 2025 amendments, state laws such as SOPIPA), federal higher-education finance rules (Title IV, 90/10, gainful employment and the 2025 earnings test, incentive compensation and OPMs), accessibility law, European and UK children's data rules, China's 2021 "double reduction", India's coaching rules, and the fast-changing policy on AI in schools.
What the study covers
- 1Overview: four kinds of regulation
- 2US student privacy
- 3US higher-education finance rules
- 4Accessibility law
- 5Europe and the UK
- 6China and India
- 7AI policy in education
- 8Key numbers
- 9Landmark cases
- 10Pitfalls
- 11How an expert thinks about it
- 12Related sections
Technical exhibits
Worked examples, checklists and case studies included with this study.
Student Data Privacy Compliance Checklist
A step-by-step privacy and security checklist for a vendor selling to US schools, including the amended COPPA Rule
Title Iv Accountability Worked Examples
Computed examples of the 90/10 rule before and after the 2021 change, the 2023 gainful-employment debt-to-earnings test and the 2025 earnings-premium test
Global Edtech Regulation Cheat Sheet
One-page tables by jurisdiction: US federal and state, EU, UK, China, India and others, plus AI-in-education policy