This yearbook focuses on technology, its power to improve education from within and without its boundaries, and its fiscal impacts. Eleven chapters are organized in three major sections that address: policy changes facing the global village (chapters 1-3); national and state issues (chapters 4-6); and curriculum, training, and local development (chapters 7-11). The chapters are as follows: (1) "The GINIE Project: Responsible Neighbors, Many Generations" (Maureen W. McClure); (2) "State Financing of International Higher Education Partnerships for Trade and Development" (Emily Vargas-Baron); (3) "Education, Technology, and the Social/Economic Order" (Srebren Dizdar & Cecilia Wandiga); (4) "Common "Mythstakes" in Technology Planning" (Karen Fullerton); (5) "The Coming Crisis in Student Access to Educational Technology: Revisioning the State and Federal Roles in Funding" (Faith E. Crampton); (6) "Teachers and Parents without School Buildings: How Teacher Unions Can Use Technology Creatively" (F. Howard Nelson); (7) "At a Distance: Using Technology in Distributed Learning in Higher Education" (Barbara Y. LaCost, Alan T. Seagren, & Sheldon L. Stick); (8) "Technology and Change in School Administrator Preparation" (Hank Bromley & Stephen L. Jacobson); (9) "Preparing Teachers To Teach with Technology: The Costs and Benefits of Developing an Electronic Community of Learners" (Michael L. Waugh & Marianne Handler); (10) "Images of the Future: Crystal Ball Gazing and Technology Policy Making" (James F. Angevine); and (11) "Bits 'n' Bytes: Epilogue and Prologue" (Kathleen C. Westerbrook). Background on the contributors, a list of the 1997-98 American Education Finance Association Board of Directors, and an index are included. Most chapters contain references. (DLS)