{"id":2047,"date":"2006-08-07T10:04:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T14:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/walmart_degrees\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T14:04:59","slug":"walmart_degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/walmart_degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/08\/06\/ap\/business\/mainD8JB4IH80.shtml\">re-election agenda<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen wants the state to do a better job at preparing students for careers at Wal-Mart. But he&#8217;s not talking about stocking shelves or checking out customers at the retail giant.<br \/>\nInstead, Bredesen wants to tailor community college programs to offer courses on retail management.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nWhile no formal arrangement has been struck, Bredesen and Wal-Mart officials agreed to work on developing a curriculum.<br \/>\nBredesen told The Associated Press he would consider an arrangement where community colleges teach Wal-Mart-specific skills, if the company would agree to guarantee jobs for graduates with good grades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to provide students with skills employers want.  But I&#8217;m curious not only how many jobs this would impact, but also how much middle management Wal-Mart jobs actually pay?  Does this make sense from an public cost\/benefit standpoint?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/walmart_degrees\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Wal-Mart Degrees\"><p>Is this part of the re-election agenda? Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen wants the state to do a better job at preparing students for careers at Wal-Mart. But he&#8217;s not talking about stocking shelves or checking out customers at the retail giant. Instead, Bredesen wants to tailor community college programs to offer courses on retail management. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}