The EPIEgram newsletter contains information about educational materials and technology and systemic change. In addition to continuing features, "Research & Reports,""Views and Reviews," and "The Educational Software Selector (TESS)," the five issues and two double issues contain articles on textbook adoption; multimedia software evaluation; materials on the quintcentenary of Columbus's voyage; purchasing technology for schools; text content and reading ability; copyright policy and concerns of publishers; funding sources for materials and technology for schools; distance learning; a report on IBM's Schools Executives Conference; parental involvement; ending sexual inequality in schools by systemic change; remodeling the mathematics curriculum; business and education; systems and systemic thinking; systemic vision of H.R. 4014; and the States Consortium for Improving Software Selection (SCISS), the TESS database, and curriculum reform. (ALF)