"What passed for public education at the time was a hap-hazard assortment of locally run one-classroom school houses and overcrowded urban classrooms scattered around the
country."
What kind of context clues are used in this sentence?

you have to tell us what you're talking about or it's impossible to answer.

a question like this requires the excerpt to be included in order to answer the question.

i think the correct answer would be adjustments in life roles.  this causes for one to adjust or change totally his/her career or lifestyle since the present is not beneficial to the life role he is at. for instance, you became a mother you would of course stop going to malls and enjoying life outside. you would be staying at home taking care of your child.

thats just how it be sometimes