| The policy and policing of language in schools I Cushing Language in Society 49 (3), 425-450, 2020 | 103 | 2020 |
| ‘Suddenly, I am part of the poem’: texts as worlds, reader- response and grammar in teaching poetry. English in Education I Cushing English in Education, 2018 | 87 | 2018 |
| ‘Say it like the Queen’: the standard language ideology and language policy making in English primary schools I Cushing Language, Culture and Curriculum 34 (3), 321-336, 2021 | 76 | 2021 |
| The (white) ears of Ofsted: a raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate I Cushing, J Snell Language in Society, 2022 | 71 | 2022 |
| Language, discipline and ‘teaching like a champion’ I Cushing British Educational Research Journal 47 (1), 23-41, 2021 | 45 | 2021 |
| Word rich or word poor? Deficit discourses, raciolinguistic ideologies and the resurgence of the ‘word gap’in England’s education policy I Cushing Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 20 (4), 305-331, 2023 | 41 | 2023 |
| Stylistics goes to school I Cushing Language and Literature 27 (4), 271-285, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| Policy mechanisms of the standard language ideology in England’s education system I Cushing Journal of Language, Identity & Education 22 (3), 279-293, 2023 | 33 | 2023 |
| Grammar policy and pedagogy from primary to secondary school I Cushing Literacy 53 (3), 170-179, 2019 | 30 | 2019 |
| A critical analysis of standardized testing in speech and language therapy VKK Nair, W Farah, I Cushing Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 54 (3), 781-793, 2023 | 28 | 2023 |
| Vocal effort levels in anechoic conditions IR Cushing, FF Li, TJ Cox, K Worrall, T Jackson Applied Acoustics 72 (9), 695-701, 2011 | 27 | 2011 |
| “A lot of them write how they speak”: policy, pedagogy and the policing of ‘nonstandard’English J Snell, I Cushing Literacy 56 (3), 199-211, 2022 | 24 | 2022 |
| Where two worlds meet: language policing in mainstream and complementary schools in England I Cushing, A Georgiou, P Karatsareas International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-17, 2021 | 23 | 2021 |
| Grammar tests, de facto policy and pedagogical coercion in England’s primary schools I Cushing Language Policy 20 (4), 599-622, 2021 | 20 | 2021 |
| Raciolinguistic policy assemblages and white supremacy in teacher education I Cushing The Curriculum Journal 34 (1), 43-61, 2023 | 19 | 2023 |
| Exploring primary and secondary students’ experiences of grammar teaching and testing in England I Cushing, M Helks English in Education, 2021 | 19 | 2021 |
| Standards, stigma, surveillance: Raciolinguistic ideologies and England’s schools I Cushing Springer Nature, 2022 | 17 | 2022 |
| Resources not rulebooks: Metaphors for grammar in teachers’ metalinguistic discourse I Cushing Metaphor and the social world 9 (2), 155-176, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| Using young adult fiction to interrogate raciolinguistic ideologies in schools I Cushing, A Carter Literacy 56 (2), 106-119, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| Prescriptivism, linguicism and pedagogical coercion in primary school UK curriculum policy I Cushing English Teaching: Practice & Critique 19 (1), 35-47, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
