The importance of early care and education (ECE) to children's lifelong learning and to our nation's economic well-being is recognized up to the highest levels of government and in businesses, schools, and living rooms across the country. Florida is home to more than 1 million children under the age of five, nearly 70 percent of whom attend some type of early care and education program. Like many states in recent years, Florida has committed public and private resources toward multiple efforts to improve early care and education services and to ensure that teacher education degree and certification programs can better prepare their graduates to meet the complex needs of young children. Critical to these efforts is the establishment of a well-coordinated, comprehensive professional preparation and development system that can prepare an incoming generation of educators while also strengthening the skills of the existing early education workforce. Institutions of higher education are critical to meeting the evolving and increasing demands identified to improve developmental and learning outcomes for the state's young child population. This document highlights findings from the "Florida Early Childhood Higher Education Inventory" and the extent to which ECE higher education programs offer course content and learning experiences that are associated with effective teacher preparation. The full narrative report, "Teaching the Teachers of Our Youngest Children: The State of Early Childhood Higher Education in Florida," and the accompanying technical report present the full findings. [For the narrative report, see ED614329. For the technical report, see ED614347.]