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Raymond John Goodman, a British citizen who later became a senior World Bank official. They married in 1953. In 1955, she received a Ph.D.

in history at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at what is now University College London. Launching a magazine While setting up a household with her husband in London, Goodman was appalled to find no equivalent to the U.S.-based Consumer Reports. She rallied friends, including Michael Young, to found Which? magazine, a product-review service owned by the Consumers’ Association of the U.K.

Her husband’s World Bank career took the young couple to Washington in 1956. WIS, the school she founded, rapidly outgrew her basement and won Ford Foundation backing as it expanded to serve children of low-income families as well as those of international civil servants. One early home for the school was in the basement of a Lutheran church.

Goodman later doggedly negotiated the purchase of the Tregaron mansion in Cleveland Park, a once-grand residence described by one colleague as “an overgrown forest of weeds, fleas and ivy." The restored mansion remains a jewel of the campus and features a meeting and reception area named for Goodman. She believed public schools had let down many children and put some of the blame on Horace Mann, a 19th-century educational reformer. So great was her fixation with Mann’s legacy that her husband made a game of seeing how long it would take for his name to pop up in any conversation.

Raymond Goodman died in 2016. Dorothy Goodman is survived by four children, nine grandchildren, a great granddaughter and two younger sisters. In recent years, Goodman remained committed to long-term thinking about educational reform.