Dorothy Goodman (née Bruchholz; January 15, 1926 – July 23, 2023) was an American educator closely associated with the charter school movement.
Goodman was a founder of the International Baccalaureate: North America, and has been credited with the success of that program.
[5] She has served as Chairwoman of Friends of International Education[6] (FIE) and president of Committee for Public Autonomous Schools (COMPASS), an organization that supports the founding of public charter schools.
[7] She advocated the teaching of Chinese and Russian to American students, saying she was inspired in this by Lee Kuan Yew, long-time prime minister of Singapore.
[9] Dorothy Goodman died of congestive heart failure at her home in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2023, at the age of 97.