This guide covers student records law end to end, for families and for institutions. It defines education records and works through each exclusion, including the peer-grading question the Supreme Court decided. It sets out the inspection right, the forty-five day limit, and what may be withheld. It walks the amendment process through the hearing and the statement in the record. It catalogs the consent exceptions, with particular attention to the school official exception that makes education technology lawful. It explains directory information and the opt-out. It sets out why there is no private right of action and what remedies remain. It covers the neighboring statutes, the transfer of rights at eighteen, vendor contracting, and institutional compliance.