Our Mission

Shortly after the formation of the Protestant Reformed Teachers’ Institute (PRTI), teachers within this organization began to call for further professionalism and development in their community of Reformed educators. At that time, teachers would meet and present papers (or manuscripts) to each other on important and relevant educational topics. Many of the teachers discussed the need for a publication which could be a vehicle for sharing the scholarly and practical topics teachers were thinking and writing about.

In 1975, the board of the PRTI met and approved the creation of a new journal known as Perspectives in Covenant Education. The grounds for that decision were given as the following: “1.) we have a considerable number of people in our ranks who are capable of making significant written contributions, 2.) we have previously prepared manuscripts that could be published, 3.) we have no magazine at the present time in the Protestant Reformed community that deals exclusively with the development of Protestant Reformed education, and 4.) professional responsibility demands that we undertake the production of such a journal.”