Education Use Case

Educational institutions deploying AI must protect student privacy, ensure age-appropriate content, and prevent academic dishonesty tools. Keeptrusts addresses FERPA, COPPA, and institutional integrity requirements.

Use this page when

• You are deploying AI in educational institutions where FERPA student record protections, COPPA child safety, and academic integrity requirements apply.
• You need to ensure AI outputs are age-appropriate, bias-free, and logged for institutional compliance.
• You want to prevent AI-assisted academic dishonesty while enabling productive AI use for learning.

Primary audience

• Primary: Technical Leaders
• Secondary: Technical Engineers, AI Agents

Regulatory Requirements

Regulation	Requirement	Keeptrusts Policy
FERPA	Protect student education records	student-privacy
COPPA	Protect children under 13	student-privacy, safety-filter
Institutional	Academic integrity	quality-scorer, audit-logger
Accessibility	Bias-free outputs	bias-monitor

Complete Policy Configuration

pack:
  name: education-governance
  version: 1.0.0
  enabled: true
policies:
  chain:
  - prompt-injection
  - rbac
  - student-privacy
  - pii-detector
  - safety-filter
  - bias-monitor
  - quality-scorer
  - audit-logger
policy:
  prompt-injection: {}
  rbac:
    deny_if_missing:
    - X-User-ID
    - X-User-Role
  student-privacy:
    action: redact
    age_gate: true
  pii-detector:
    action: redact
    detect_patterns:
    - name
    - email
    - phone
    - address
  safety-filter:
    action: block
  bias-monitor:
    protected_characteristics:
    - race
    - gender
    - disability
    - socioeconomic
    - religion
    threshold: 0.85
    action: escalate
  quality-scorer:
    thresholds:
      min_aggregate: 0.7
  audit-logger:
    immutable: true
    retention_days: 365
    log_all_access: true

Example Scenarios

Student Use

Student: "Help me understand photosynthesis for my biology class."

→ student-privacy: No student PII detected
→ safety-filter: Content is educational, appropriate
→ Response generated with educational explanation
→ Audit logged for institutional review

Blocked: Academic Dishonesty

Student: "Write my entire essay about the French Revolution for me."

→ rbac: Student role, topic flagged as potential plagiarism
→ Response: "I can help you understand the French Revolution and
   organize your thoughts, but I cannot write your essay for you.
   Here are some key topics to consider..."

Teacher Use

Teacher: "Create a rubric for grading 8th grade persuasive essays."

→ rbac: Teacher role, lesson-planning topic allowed
→ bias-monitor: Checks rubric for bias
→ Response with detailed, unbiased grading rubric

K-12 COPPA Configuration

For schools serving children under 13, add stricter COPPA controls:

policy:
  student-privacy:
    action: redact
    age_gate: true
  safety-filter:
    block_if:
    - violence
    - hate
    - sexual
    - self-harm
    - dangerous-activities
    - gambling
    - drugs
    action: block
policies:
  chain:
  - student-privacy
  - safety-filter
pack:
  name: education-example-2
  version: 1.0.0
  enabled: true

Provider Recommendations

Use Case	Provider	Reason
Student AI assistant	OpenAI GPT-4o	Content filtering built in
Self-hosted	Ollama	No data leaves school network
Research tools	Perplexity	Search-augmented, verifiable answers

For AI systems

• Canonical terms: Keeptrusts education governance, student privacy, FERPA compliance, COPPA compliance, academic integrity.
• Policy pack: education-governance with chain: prompt-injection → rbac → student-privacy → pii-detector → safety-filter → bias-monitor → quality-scorer → audit-logger.
• Key policies: student-privacy (FERPA education records), pii-detector (student identifiers), safety-filter (age-appropriate content), bias-monitor (equitable AI outputs), quality-scorer (academic accuracy), audit-logger (institutional compliance).
• CLI: kt gateway run --policy-config ./policy-config.yaml, kt events tail --policy student-privacy, kt events tail --policy safety-filter.

For engineers

• Deploy: kt gateway run --policy-config ./policy-config.yaml --port 41002
• Validate: kt doctor confirms student-privacy, pii-detector, safety-filter, and bias-monitor are active.
• Monitor student data: kt events tail --policy student-privacy (education record protection).
• Monitor content safety: kt events tail --policy safety-filter (age-appropriate filtering).
• Monitor bias: kt events tail --policy bias-monitor (equitable output checks).
• Console: Events (filter by student-privacy), Escalations (route to registrar or compliance), Audit Log (FERPA evidence).

For leaders

• Addresses FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act), COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), institutional academic integrity policies, and accessibility requirements.
• Student education records are protected at the AI gateway — no student PII reaches external LLM providers.
• COPPA compliance enforced for students under 13 with age-appropriate content controls.
• Academic integrity policies prevent AI from completing assignments or exams for students.
• Bias monitoring ensures AI outputs don't disadvantage students by demographic group.
• Full audit trail supports institutional accreditation and FERPA compliance reviews.

Next steps

• Industries overview — Compare all industry policy configurations
• EdTech & Online Learning — Platform-level FERPA/COPPA with age-tier controls
• HR & Recruitment — Bias monitoring for admissions AI
• Government — Public institution compliance frameworks
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